MAJOR UPDATE: Staging Locations and Time

The 2025 Fiesta of Wheels staging will be in two (2) staging locations.  Your staging location will be sent to you via email following your registration.

Time

Check for pre-registration, and Same-day Registration will begin at 7:00 AM MDT on Sunday, October 5, 2025, at both locations listed below. 

Staging Locations

• Plant World, Inc., WEST LOT 

  • located at 101 El Pueblo Rd. NE (across from the Rail Runner station at Los Ranchos/ Journal Center), and 

  • Check in for Pre-Registration only. 

  • Same-day registrations are not available, and people will be directed to the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Posse. 

• The Bernalillo County Sheriff's Posse

  • located at 10308 2nd, Albuquerque, NM 87114

    • Check in for Pre-Registration and Same-day Registration

**Same-day registration will only be available at The Bernalillo County Sheriff's Posse.  If you do not pre-register, you can only stage your vehicle(s) at The Bernalillo County Sheriff's Posse, not Plant World. **

Important Notes:

•  Participants cannot stage or park their vehicles in the Rail Runner station’s East or West Lots.  Vehicles will be subject to towing/ ticketing if they are parked in the Rail Runner parking lot.   

• Portable restrooms will be available at both staging locations.  

• Balloon Fiesta officials will alert us when the field is open and ready for us.  Although we anticipate this to be around 9:00 AM, the time we caravan to Balloon Fiesta is based on multiple factors and is ultimately out of our control.

• Caravan to Fiesta Park, please obey all traffic laws, do not block traffic, and give way to buses, trains, and local traffic.

• Admission and Entrance to Balloon Fiesta Park via general admission is included for those individuals inside your participating vehicle.  However, once inside, there are no in-and-out privileges. 

• Subject to Search: All vehicles entering Balloon Fiesta Park with the Fiesta of Wheels caravan for entry are subject to search by officers and Canine units.  We sincerely appreciate your patience and understanding. Note, the FoW caravan will be entering through the Crew entry on the North end of Balloon Fiesta Park (Roy RD).  Although the roadways are fairly maintained, there are places that are underkept and/ or not paved.  There are also large inclines and declines the caravan will encounter and alternative entrance routes were not made available to the FoW entrance caravan.