Bring in the new year aboard the New Years Holiday Lights Train. Ride vintage train cars beautifully decorated with holiday lights through the streets of Santa Cruz. Light-up hula hoopers and a live DJ will keep spirits bright and help bring in 2025 right.
Join your museum community and ring the bell at one of our most beloved yearly events.
Noon Year’s Eve at the Bay Area Discovery Museum is the perfect way for families to ring in the new year without the late-night struggle.
Celebrate the culture of Kwanzaa and ring in 2026 at our Winter Wonderland Kwanzaa and Noon Year’s Eve Celebration!
Ring in the new year with a refreshing morning hike along the Delta! Join us for a guided walk through the wetlands and trails of Big Break as we reflect on the past year and set intentions for the one ahead.
Kids and parents, come celebrate the New Year with music, activities, face painting and a countdown to THREE GIANT balloon drops at NOON!!!!
Kick off a very merry new year at your family’s favorite place to play!
Ring in the New Year with PRD at a family-friendly hour! Celebrate with music, a dance party, and the countdown at noon - complete with a balloon drop and a whole lot of fun!
Celebrate the New Year with the Peanuts gang! Enjoy fun crafts for kids, make a balloon Snoopy, and watch Happy New Year, Charlie Brown! on the big screen in the Museum Theater.
Ring in the New Year without staying up all night! Celebrate strokes of midnight around the world at 11am, 12pm, 3pm and 4pm! Kids will count down and celebrate with hundreds of colorful balloons dropping from above.
Kick off the New Year early with family-friendly fun at our first-ever Noon Year's Eve event!
You won't have to stay up past your bedtime this New Year's Eve!
Join us for a Novato tradition on New Year’s Eve at Noon! Kids of all ages are invited to Downtown Novato to see what happens when 26,000 small bouncy balls are dropped onto the street from a ladder truck 40 feet in the air!
Your New Year's Eve will get a fun, energetic, awesome beginning with this engaging show. Bring the whole family for some magical fun!
Bring the whole family to celebrate New Year’s Eve at Gilroy Gardens! You’ll have a blast enjoying the park’s exciting rides and gorgeous gardens as well as North Pole Nights holiday fun.
Join us for a stroll along the East Ridge trail to reflect on 2025 and watch the sun set (4:59pm) on the last day of the year.
Ring in the new year in a spectacular way. Join naturalist Harold Hirsch as he leads our annual New Year’s Day sunrise hike—a heart-pumping and fun way to welcome 2026.
Come greet the first light of the New Year to usher in a better year for us all!
The blessing is to express gratitude for the past year’s blessings and to pray for divine guidance and protection for the New Year.
Let's set the tone for the New Year by creative beauty together. Join me in creating a massive artwork on the beach.
Get ready for disco in the streets, DJs, live music, drag, fashion, street performances, and many other surprises still to be announced!
Join us for our traditional New Year's Day celebration at IDESST Cultural Center!
Start the new year out right with a guided hike on Angel Island! Join Park Interpreters for a 4-mile, moderately paced hike on paved and unpaved trails.
Party all day from 10-6 on New Years Day!
Come groom a trail, pull invasive weeds, split firewood, paint a fence, or do the countless other tasks that keep the park humming.
Live music, magic, carnival games, NYE Ball Drop and more!
Ring in 2025 with Sonoma CAN!
This year, the holiday FUN doesn’t stop when Christmas ends! California’s Great America is offering an exciting way to ring in 2025 with a family-friendly New Year’s Eve event worth celebrating.
At this special annual event, we will open the firehouse to bring in the bells with your family & friends.
You won’t have to stay up past your bedtime for this New Year’s Eve party!
Join Museum-on-the-Go at Poppy Bank Epicenter for Common Ground Society’s Noon-Year’s Party!
Join us for a special New Year's Eve celebration just for kids! We'll have stories, songs, a craft, and learn a little bit about New Year's Eve traditions from around the world before we countdown to New Year's Eve somewhere on the planet!
Join us for a Noon-Years Eve Dance Party to celebrate 2025!
Kids and their families are invited to celebrate Noon Year’s Eve with crafts, refreshments, a photo booth, and a countdown to noon!
Join us as we ring in the Noon Year at the Ygnacio Valley Library!
Can’t keep the kids awake till midnight? Join us for our annual family-friendly New Year’s Eve party! Bid farewell to 2024 and ring in 2025 with colorful confetti blasted from a confetti cannon. We can’t wait to celebrate together—with science!
Celebrate the arrival of 2025 with the whole family by participating in the “countdown to noon across time zones” with family hugs, a lively celebration, and the Museum’s version of the famous Ball Drop in Times Square with lots of confetti.
Come groom a trail, pull invasive weeds, split firewood, paint a fence, or do the countless other tasks that keep the park humming.
The Santa Rosa Figure Skating Club presents "A New Year's Bash! Starring Snoopy", directed by the legendary Karen Kresge. With two Ice Show times available, please join us for an Ice Show to celebrate the magic of the holiday season and to ring in the New Year with guest star, Snoopy!
Reflect on 2024 and start the new year ready to connect to nature!
Join us on New Years Eve for music, play, a photo booth and yummy treats!
Bring the family down to Poppy Bank Epicenter and celebrate the New Year! The party starts at 5PM and the ball drops at 9PM (Midnight Eastern Time)! We will be streaming the East Coast ball drop. It will be a New Years celebration the kids won't forget!
Holidays at Filoli is sure to delight, dripping with festive finery and sparkling with garden lights every day and night!
Discover what animals and plants do to prepare for cold months as we warm up with apple cider and walk the wintry trails.
The countdown to midnight may belong to the adults, but Happy Hollow’s Noon Year’s Eve celebration is all about outdoor fun for the little ones.
Our Noon Year`s Eve celebration kicks off with an exciting puppeteering performance, `The North Pole Review,` featuring high-kicking dancers, dazzling acrobatic penguins, and much more!
Our Noon Year`s Eve celebration kicks off with an exciting puppeteering performance by Fratello Marionettes. `The North Pole Review` features high-kicking dancers, dazzling acrobatic penguins, and much more!
For those unable to stay up until midnight, celebrate early with a craft, photo booth, a countdown and a dance party!
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