{"id":32527,"date":"2023-08-04T16:59:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T22:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-rendezvous-balloon-rally-comes-to-town\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:58:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:58:44","slug":"cortez-rendezvous-balloon-rally-comes-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-rendezvous-balloon-rally-comes-to-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez Rendezvous Balloon Rally comes to town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=6085be7a-d5dc-519e-a7b7-12e48b9f6fcf&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1498\" alt=\"A balloon participating in the 2023 Cortez Rendezvous lands in a field south of Cortez at County Road G and Road 24.3.(The Journal)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A balloon participating in the 2023 Cortez Rendezvous lands in a field south of Cortez at County Road G and Road 24.3.(The Journal)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Cortez Rendezvous Balloon Rally will take over the skies this weekend with early morning launches Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and a balloon glow on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Crews meet at Parque de Vida around 6:30 a.m. to prepare for 7 a.m. launches, weather permitting, according to the event\u2019s Facebook page. The morning launches are scheduled to last until 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The rally also has a balloon glow scheduled for Friday evening, starting at 6:30 p.m., weather permitting. The event is expected to last until 9 p.m. A Facebook announcement also states that other activities will be happening at the park during this event.<\/p>\n<p>Balloons float southwest, eventually landing south of Cortez. Friday morning, balloons landed at the Cortez Municipal Airport and in the area of County Road G and Road 24.3.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-6c8fbe70146306bcb217c35bdf366000\">Updates on this event will be available as it continues. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=6c28222a-4ef4-5481-8d6a-ad4b624216c7&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" alt=\"Balloons balloons participating in the 2023 Cortez Rendezvous fly south of Cortez after launching Friday morning from Parque de Vida. (The Journal)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Balloons balloons participating in the 2023 Cortez Rendezvous fly south of Cortez after launching Friday morning from Parque de Vida. (The Journal)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ae30da92-9490-5f27-b963-b7717e60ac17&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"A balloon participating in the 2023 Cortez Rendezvous lands at the Cortez Municipal Airport south of Cortez after launching Friday from Parque de Vida.(The Journal)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A balloon participating in the 2023 Cortez Rendezvous lands at the Cortez Municipal Airport south of Cortez after launching Friday from Parque de Vida.(The Journal)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1d6afd29-aaf7-5bff-b66a-239d5232d671&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1433\" alt=\"Two balloons participating in the 2023 Cortez Rendezvous fly south of Cortez after launching Friday morning from Parque de Vida. \n(The Journal)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Two balloons participating in the 2023 Cortez Rendezvous fly south of Cortez after launching Friday morning from Parque de Vida.<br>\n(The Journal)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d61e748a-7a5b-5b04-9b11-c07ec985cb7f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1427\" alt=\"A balloon participating in the 2023 Cortez Rendezvous lands in a field south of Cortez at County Road G and Road 24.3.\n(The Journal)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A balloon participating in the 2023 Cortez Rendezvous lands in a field south of Cortez at County Road G and Road 24.3.<br>\n(The Journal)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>balloons will be seen the mornings of Aug. 4, 5, and 6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-32527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81828,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32527\/revisions\/81828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32527"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=32527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}