Zion Balloons
Sunrise hot-air balloon flights over the St. George area and its red-rock landscape.
Balloons fly at sunrise for a physical reason rather than an aesthetic one: the air is at its most stable in the hour after dawn, before the ground heats and starts generating the thermals and surface winds that make launching and landing a balloon unpredictable. A balloon has no steering, so pilots choose an altitude and use the different wind directions at different heights.
Worth knowing
A hot-air balloon flies because heated air is less dense than the air around it, and the pilot's only direct control is vertical — burn to rise, vent to descend. Steering is done by finding a layer moving in a useful direction, which is why a flight's landing site is chosen in the air rather than in advance and a chase vehicle follows from the ground.
See also hot-air ballooning in St. George. The directory lists all Air Tours & Skydiving.
Nearby: Vroom.Me.
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Address
4196 S Airport ParkwaySt. George, UT 84790
Contact
- Work Phone: 866-359-9466
- Website: https://zionballoons.com
Frequently asked questions
Why do balloons fly at sunrise?
The air is at its most stable in the hour after dawn, before the ground heats and starts generating the thermals and surface winds that make launching and landing unpredictable.
How is a balloon steered?
It is not, directly. The pilot controls altitude — burning to rise, venting to descend — and finds a layer of air moving in a useful direction, which is why the landing site is chosen in the air and a chase vehicle follows on the ground.
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