Yuma Arizona Entertainment & Events

Festivals & Fairs

• The 2009 Yuma Birding & Nature Festival
  202 S. 1st Ave., Suite 202 • Yuma, AZ 85364
  928-376-0100
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• Colorado River Crossing Balloon Festival
  276 Orange Avenue • Yuma, AZ 85364
  928-343-1715
  One of Yuma, AZ's premier annual events, the hot air balloon festival attracts some of the most colorful and unique balloons from the West and Southwest. Staged over three days in November, with mass ascensions on Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings, the festival uses the Colorado River and the Sonoran Desert as its backdrop. The festival highlight is theGlow that takes place on Saturday night at Yuma's Desert Sun Baseball Stadium where tethered balloons fill the baseball field and with their burners firing at full blast, the balloons to glow brightly in the dark desert sky, The entire pageant is set to music. more...