The NC High Country New Years Celebrations 2024 are a great way to ring in the New Year in the Boone, Blowing Rock, Beech Mountain, West Jefferson, Wilkesboro area!  There are activities for families and couples alike, both active and more traditional pursuits.  Here is our guide to the best ways to celebrate:

• Chetola New Year's Eve Dinner
  Where: Chetola Resort, Blowing Rock, NC
  What: TBA
  
  
  
• New Year's Eve Extravaganza
  Where: App Ski Mtn, Blowing Rock NC
  Cost: Varies based on activity
  Enjoy restaurant specials, moonlight ice skating, and a slopes torchlight parade.  A Fireworks show will end the night. CLICK HERE

• New Year's Eve Celebration 
  Where: Sugar Mountain Resort
  Cost: Varies based on activity
  Celebrate the New Year at Sugar Mountain Resort with live night skiing, torchlight parade, fireworks, indoor live music and a champagne toast!
  CLICK HERE
  
  

• New Year's Eve Fireworks
  Where: Beech Mountain Resort
  Cost: Varies based on activity
  Enjoy a early family-friendly celebration, live music and/or fireworks at midnight! Fireworks can be viewed from the lodge deck and in the resort village. The resort village is the perfect place to relax by one of our many fire pits
  CLICK HERE

• A Farmhouse New Year's Eve
  Where: Mast Farm Inn, Valle Crucis
  TBA

• New Year's Eve Dinner
  Where: The Beacon, Boone
  TBA

• New Year's Eve Party
  Where: Call Family Distillery, Wilkesboro
  TBA

• New Year's Eve Fire & Ice Drag Show
  Where: Stardust Cellars, Wilkesboro
  TBA

• Boone Ball Drop
  Where: Horton Hotel, King Street, Downtown Boone
  See the ball drop at the Horton Hotel from across the road!  The Jones House lawn is a great viewing location.  *Cannot view from inside the Horton Hotel, but the Horton Lounge will be open from 12pm-12:30am.

• Countdown to 2024
  Where: Appalachian Theatre, Downtown Boone
  TBA

• NYE Bash
  Where: New River Brewing, West Jefferson
  TBA
  

• Throwback to Midnight
  Where: Rhodes Motor Lodge, Boone
  
  TBA

• Yoga Dance Party
  Where: Art of Living Retreat Center, Boone
  
  TBA

• New Year's Eve at Old Hampton Store
  Where: Old Hampton Store, Linville
  Enjoy live music with Smokin' Joe Randolph. Find details HERE

• Ringing in the New Year
  Where: Cruisers American Grill, Jefferson
  TBA

• New Year's Eve Party
  Where: South End Brewing, Boone
  
  TBA

• New Year's Bash
  Where: Alleghany Jubilee, Sparta
  Cost: $10pp
  Potluck dinner and live music

BEST WAYS TO START THE NEW YEAR

• First Day Hikes
  Where: Elk Knob State Park, Todd
  Meet at the trailhead parking lot at 1pm 
  

• New Year's Day Sunrise
  Where: Grandfather Mountain, Linville
  Ring in an epic New Year on Saturday, Jan. 1, for the first sunrise of 2023 — atop Grandfather Mountain.This special event will allow guests the rare opportunity to visit Grandfather Mountain outside of regular operating hours and on a holiday.
  CLICK HERE

• After Holiday Sale
  Where: Shoppes on the Parkway, Blowing Rock
  Take advantage of sales and start the New Year off with a new outfit...or two!