The ball drop on New Year’s Eve is pretty well-known, but did you know about these fifteen odd things dropping on New Year’s Eve in and around Lancaster County? Would you be surprised if I told you there is a perogi drop or a pickle drop or a peep drop?
1. Red Rose Drop – Lancaster City
Ring in the new year with New Year’s Eve in Downtown Lancaster City! N.Y.E. in Lancaster City features a live concert, the lowering of Lancaster’s Red Rose, and a fireworks finale at midnight! Join the fun in Binns Park, 120 N. Queen St., to celebrate the new year! Event is FREE and open to the public.
2. Shoe Drop – Akron
The Shoe-In will go from 9 p.m. until 12:15 a.m. at Akron’s Broad Street Park. This is a FREE all-ages event featuring FREE food, a DJ spinning tunes, a bonfire, and hayrides from 9 to 11:30 p.m. The traditional giant lighted shoe will usher in the New Year as it drops from its stand and touches the ground at the stroke of midnight.
3. Mushroom Drop – Kennett Square
This is a FREE event. Young children and their parents are invited to kick off our NYE celebration at 7:30 pm. “Raising” our lighted Mushroom will take place at 8:45 pm. Why not bring a senior along who would not usually celebrate NYE?
The Garage Community & Youth Center at 115 S Union Street will be our venue for an indoor event. Doors open at 8:00 pm. It might just be the place to get warm. The Funsters will be back on stage to liven up the crowd from 9 pm ’til 12:30 am on S Union Street just outside The Garage.
4. Strawberry Drop – Harrisburg
Celebrate the New Year in Downtown Harrisburg with a strawberry drop, fireworks, Countdown to Kid-Night and more! Activities will be held Tuesday, December 31, 2019 from 9pm-12am at the City Government Center and the portion of Second Street directly in front of it. Check their website to see a full schedule of events.
5. Pickle Drop – Dillsburg
Activities for all ages from 4:30-10:30 PM. Children’s Games benefit New Hope Ministries; Pickle Parlor provides face, hair & fingernail painting. Feast on the Dillsburg Senior Center’s Famous Pickle Soup and other food that will be provided for purchase.
At 7pm the Pickle’s baby gherkin, “Lil’ Dill,” will conduct her drop, in conjunction with Ireland’s midnight. This celebration honors Dillsburg’s Irish founders while providing family fun for those who strive to be in bed before midnight!
PICKLE DROP at Midnight on East Hanover Street, followed by Fireworks.
6. Peep Drop – Bethlehem
Family fun is the name of the game at PEEPSFEST®, the annual two-day New Year’s Eve festival celebrating the fun and excitement of the PEEPS® Brand at the iconic SteelStacks in Bethlehem, PA. Each year, fans arrive from all over the country to enjoy family-friendly activities and marvel at the PEEPS® Chick Drop – a 4-feet, 9-inches tall, 400-pound lit PEEPS® Chick that descends at 5:15 p.m. on Dec. 31 to commemorate the beginning of an exciting new year.
Family entertainment including:
- kid friendly bands
- magicians
- the Family Disco Lounge
- kids fun run
- and more
7. Hershey Kiss Drop – Hershey
Central PA’s Premier New Year’s Event! Held on DECEMBER 31 at Chocolatetown Square | Hershey, PA . Event is from 9:00 pm – Midnight
with FREE ADMISSION. Learn more event details on their website.
8. Bologna Drop – Lebanon
The NYE Bologna Drop will be held on South Eighth Street, between Chestnut and Cumberland Streets. This year’s event is being sponsored by Godshall’s Quality Meats, maker of Kutztown and Weaver’s Bologna; Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC; City of Lebanon, and Downtown Lebanon-A Main Street Community.
9. Pierogi and Kielbasa – Shenandoah
10. Bayer Asprin Tablet Drop – Myerstown
We will be dropping a 6 foot Bayer Asprin Tablet from 100′. The event starts at 11pm with a DJ and the tablet starts to lowe at 11:59pm. Help us ring in 2020!
11. Bottle of Bear Drop – Pottsville
12. McClure Kettle Drop – Susquehanna Valley
Start a new tradition at the local community event held in McClure, Pennsylvania at the McClure Volunteer Fire Company Station on West Specht Street. Held on Decemeber 31st from 10pm to 12:30am. Doors open at 9:30pm.
FREE ADMISSION
- DJ / Dancing
- Food / Drinks
- Hamburgers / Cheeseburgers
- Hot Dogs
- French Fries
- Pepsi Products
- Hot Chocolate
- Coffee
- Modified Chinese Auction
- Prizes every 15 minutes
- 50 / 50 Drawing
- Kids Coloring
- Scavenger Hunt
- Silent Auction
- Beard Contest (Best Overall)
- Contests for children
- Candy Jar guessing
- Apple Relay
- Civil War Cannon set off at Midnight
- Lowering the cast iron kettle at midnight from the McClure Fire Co. Ladder Truck
13. White Rose Drop – York
- Kids Countdown at the Voni Grimes Gym (125 East College Avenue) from 5 to 8 p.m., with complimentary hats and noisemakers, family-friendly entertainment including a kids dance party with DJ, photo backdrops and props, glitter tattoos, face painting, petting zoo, inflatables, spin art, and a balloon drop countdown. Event MCs will be Liz and Chris from WARM 103.3.
- At 10 pm, a D.J./Dance Party will take place at Continental Square. Share your playlist suggestions on Facebook and Twitter using the #NYEyork hashtag.
- At midnight, watch the white rose drop followed by a fireworks display sponsored by Merrill, a Bank of America Company.
All events are FREE and open to the public thanks to our sponsors.
14. Wrench Drop – Mechanicsburg
The result of an Eagle Scout project by Mechanicsburg Area School District graduate Sheldon Rodgers, this small town west of Harrisburg dropped its first wrench on New Year’s Eve in 2003. The galvanized steel wrench commemorates the borough’s founders — mechanics who settled in the area to make and repair wagons that were traveling west after crossing the Susquehanna River in the early 19th century. The town celebrates the New Year from 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. with the annual drop of a wrench in front of the Washington Fire Company at 53 E. Main St.
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