The eighth annual FireLake Fireflight Balloon Festival will return to the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Festival grounds Aug. 8-9, 2025. The festival offers two days of balloon glows, balloon launches and rides, live music and family friendly entertainment. In 2024, the festival drew over 60,000 attendees.
Admission to the festival and parking are free, as are several live music performances.
Oklahoma country music band Ricochet will headline the 2025 festival. Inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame last year, the Oklahoma natives boast an impressive resume of awards and touring stats. The band shot to stardom in the ‘90s and hasn’t stopped performing since.
Ricochet will perform Saturday at 9 p.m. at Raymond Peltier Park, located at 1702 S. Gordon Cooper Drive in Shawnee.
Other artists performing throughout the weekend include Cam Allen, Craig Wayne Boyd and Jesse Keith Whitley.
Guests are encouraged to bring blankets and lawn chairs for the outdoor concerts.
In addition to live music, festival guests can enjoy food trucks and artisan vendors from across Oklahoma, a 5K fun run, kids’ inflatables and carnival rides, a Dock Dogs competition, helicopter rides, a drone show and other activities for families.
Twenty-five hot air balloons will fill the balloon field for evening glows, and tethered balloon rides will be for sale on a first come, first served basis, weather permitting. Balloon launches on Friday and Saturday mornings are another way festival guests can enjoy the hot air balloons.
FireLake Fireflight Balloon Fest is held in conjunction with the Outdoor Nation Expo, which offers family friendly hunting and fishing activities, demonstrations and vendors at FireLake Arena.
This year, festival goers traveling to Shawnee will also have the option to stay at the new FireLake Hotel located at 41170 Hardesty Road, next to the Festival grounds. To make a reservation, contact 405-878-8770.
To learn more about the 2025 FireLake Fireflight Balloon Fest and view an event schedule, visit firelakeballoonfest.com or download the app via the App Store or Google Play.
