After several failed attempts in city limits, the annual Preakness Celebration Hot Air Balloon Festival will return this year to the county?s Oregon Ridge park.
Event organizers said planners have for the past four years tried to host the balloon festival downtown at Rash Field, and later Druid Hill Park. But due to the city?s skyline, wind patterns and proximity to open water, the festival never took flight ? literally.
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