Canowindra International Balloon Challenge
26 April 2025 – 4 May 2025
The Cabonne Community Glow event will take place on 3 May 2025
Canowindra International Balloon Challenge
Canowindra International Balloon Challenge is organised by Canowindra Challenge Incorporated (CCI). The CCI is a community organisation and was created back in 2010.
Canowindra is a small but strong rural community situated in the picturesque and fertile Belubula Valley, a three and a half hour drive west of Sydney, New South Wales, and has a long history of hot air ballooning, dating back to the first modern hot air balloon flight in Australia in 1966.
Cabonne Community Balloon Glow
The Cabonne Community Glow is the signature event of the Canowindra International Balloon Challenge. The Cabonne Community Glow is an amazing family friendly spectacle and should not be missed and will take place on 3 May 2025.
To be held at the Canowindra Sports Oval, the 2025 event will be headlined by 15 hot air balloons which will inflate just after sunset and then light up like giant 20 metre high lightbulbs and then synchronise their lights to a mix of the best music over the last 20 years. It is a spectacle you will never forget.
Visit Cabonne, NSW
Welcome to Cabonne, a rich rural shire in Central NSW, covering the villages of Borenore, Canowindra, Cargo, Cudal, Cumnock, Eugowra, Manildra, Molong, Mullion Creek Nashdale and Yeoval.
Neatly tucked in between the regional centres of Orange, Cowra, Wellington, Parkes and Forbes, Cabonne extends from Eugowra in the west, the site of Australia’s biggest and most famous gold robbery at Escort Rock by Frank Gardiner, through to Ophir in the east, where Australia’s first gold rush was.
In the south is Canowindra, the ballooning capital of Australia, a town full of historic pubs, antiques and wine, and to the north is the village of Yeoval, the childhood home of Banjo Paterson, one of Australia’s most famous poets. Yeoval also hosts the Mulga Bill’s Festival and Bike Fun Ride, the annual festival is a fun day out for the family with street stalls, vintage cars and bikes, novelty games and prizes.
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Sponsorship is an integral part of putting on an event such as the Canowindra International Balloon Challenge. These crucial funds allow an army of volunteers to put on an event which promotes economic growth to Canowindra and the wider Cabonne Shire.
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