Fun & Festive New Year's Eve Celebrations

Celebrate the New Year through the arts at First Night Hartford! This multi-cultural, artistically unique, family-friendly event features full day of art, music, food and community – plus two dazzling fireworks shows (6 p.m. and midnight) in Bushnell Park. 

Families with young children can end the year with a daytime celebration in Mystic - Kid's Countdown to New Years - where kiddos can enjoy fun crafts, a musical performance, and a New Year's countdown and confetti cannons. 

Make your resolution to party in style at any one of these great events going on around the state:

• Saybrook Point Resort & Marina is celebrating with an all-night gala and overnight options.
• Foxwoods Resort Casino offers special activities including DJs, live music, and a balloon drop.
• Ring in the New Year with a rock concert from Wicked Peach plus a champagne toast at The Hilton Mystic’s New Year’s Eve Bash.
• Gather together for an evening of great wine, a delicious menu, live music, and dancing at Aquila's Nest Vineyards' New Year's Eve Dinner & Live Music, located in Newtown.
• Board a vintage train car for a 70s Soiree including libations, mystery, dining, dancing, and more at the Essex Steam Train.

Many Connecticut hotels are offering New Year’s Eve packages, so plan now and book early.

• At the Water’s Edge Resort and Spa in Westbrook, you can stay the night and enjoy a four-course dinner and dance party.
• In Simsbury at Millwright's, celebrate New Year's Eve with two prix fixe dinner options in an ideal setting for a holiday gathering.
• In Old Saybrook, the Saybrook Point Resort & Marina is ringing in the New Year with a New Year's Eve breakfast buffet and a New Year's Day brunch.
• And if you’re looking to just get away and enjoy the peace of a beautiful hotel room, try these great places to stay throughout the state.

Here’s to a wonderful 2025!