{"id":1311,"date":"2014-03-02T14:58:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T14:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2014-03-02T19:54:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T19:54:46","slug":"hot-air-ballooning-in-steamboat-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/hot-air-ballooning-in-steamboat-springs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot air ballooning in Steamboat Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before it was known as Ski Town USA, Steamboat Springs was a cowboy town.\u00a0 Steamboat Ski Resort is home to more Olympians than any other town in the USA, but known for its legendary champagne powder, spectacular scenery, and the cowboy way of life.\u00a0 It is a place where you can fulfill bucket list adventures like a hot air balloon ride or a trail ride in the snow.<\/p>\n<p>Wild West Balloon Adventures flies year round.\u00a0 Weather permitting, they fly in the mornings.\u00a0 You float over the Yampa Valley to get a bird\u2019s eye view of Steamboat Ski Resort, the town of Steamboat Springs, Flat Top Mountains, and the extinct volcano Hahns Peak.\u00a0 Cost is $220 for adults, $140 for kids 6-12, and $200 for 65 and older. \u00a0<a title=\"Wilds West Balloon Adventures\" href=\"http:\/\/wildwestballooning.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.wildwestballooning.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Del\u2019s Triangle 3 Ranch offers trail rides year round.\u00a0 On the winter ride, you get a chance to enjoy winter\u2019s splendor at its best with the peacefulness of the ride on the ranch.\u00a0 Del\u2019s Triangle 3 Ranch is a family run ranch led by Ray Heid. \u00a0\u00a0Five generations of Heids have lived in the Yampa Valley.\u00a0 Winter rides are $80 a person.\u00a0 Children must be 6 or older to ride.<\/p>\n<p>For the balloon ride or trail ride, ski clothes or winter clothes are must. For more information about the locations and companies featured in this edition of Explore Colorado, click on the links below.<\/p>\n<p>via &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kdvr.com\/2013\/03\/07\/explore-colorado-hot-air-ballooning-in-steamboat-springs\/\">KDVR.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before it was known as Ski Town USA, Steamboat Springs was a cowboy town.\u00a0 Steamboat Ski Resort is home to more Olympians than any other town in the USA, but known for its legendary champagne powder, spectacular scenery, and the cowboy way of life.\u00a0 It is a place where you can fulfill bucket list adventures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[89,24],"tags":[35,739,737,36,738],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","category-video","tag-colorado","tag-ian-cox","tag-steamboat-springs","tag-usa","tag-wild-west-balloon-adventures","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-Shot-2014-03-02-at-14.08.45.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3RIC2-l9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}