Guide to New Year’s Eve events around Rochester area
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Rochester area is celebrating 2024 and welcoming 2025. Here’s your guide to some events on Tuesday to celebrate New Year’s Eve:
Seneca Park Zoo
Seneca Park Zoo is celebrating the New Year with a ball drop at noon at two locations, the snow leopard habitat and the elephant habitat. “Noon Year’s Eve” will also include family-friendly festivities.
Bristol Mountain
Bristol Mountain is holding a New Year’s Eve party from 7 to 10 p.m. with plenty of festivities. A free kids’ zone party will begin at 8:50 p.m. with a dance party, a magician, and a balloon drop. DJ Olliwood will play tunes throughout the party and there will be a torchlight parade around 9:15 p.m. After that, there will be fireworks at 9:30 p.m.
LeRoy
The LeRoy Business Council is holding its annual fireworks show on the banks of Oatka. The fireworks begin at 9 p.m.
Thomas P. Ryan Jr. R-Center
The Thomas P. Ryan Jr. R-Center on Webster Avenue is holding a New Year’s Eve celebration with goal-setting, a self-confidence workshop, a wellness workshop, music, and other activities. It runs from noon to 4 p.m. The goal of the event is to help people welcome the New Year with positivity and purpose.
RMSC Holiday Laser Show
The Holiday Laser Show at the Strasenburgh Planetarium at RMSC continues into New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. The show features holiday classic songs — from Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas” to The Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s “Christmas Eve” — choreographed to a laser light show.
The shows are 40 minutes long and you can get tickets here. It runs through Sunday, Jan. 5. Here are the times for upcoming shows:
- Dec. 31 at 10 a.m., 3:15 p.m., and 4:15 p.m.
- Jan. 1 at 10 a.m., 3:15 p.m., and 4:15 p.m.
ARTISANworks
ARTISANworks on Blossom Road is hosting a night of art and music at its New Year’s Eve Bash, which begins at 8 p.m. There will be specially crafted beverages and people can dance to the beats of DJ Rob Linton. You can get tickets here.