Celebrate all things winter as we ring in the new year.
Enjoy candlelight trails, hang out at the A-frame, sled on the lit sledding hill, sip cocoa and warm up with crackling bonfires. Stay for the ball drop at 7:59 p.m.
Bring your own sled. Snowshoe rental is available. S'mores and hot cocoa provided.
Dogs not permitted. Service animals are welcome.
Location
Visitor Center, Lebanon Hills Regional Park
Date
Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025, 5-8 p.m.
Ages
All ages
Admission - sold out!
Tickets go on sale Dec. 1, 2025 at 9 a.m.
Tickets are $8 each. Ages 5 and younger are free, no ticket required.
Tickets are sold out.
Food available
- Brick Oven Bus Pizza
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Unbakeable
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KCM Eggrolls
Other events planned
Due to weather conditions, activities during the party have not been finalized. An event map showing available trails and activities will be posted before the party.
In ideal conditions, the event will include:
- Wooded lake loop for hiking or snowshoeing (about a half mile).
- Wooded spur trail to the A-Frame shelter for hiking or snowshoeing (1 mile one way).
- Paved, snow-free ADA accessible lake wooded loop for walking (3/4 mile).
- Snow-free ADA accessible sidewalk loop around the Visitor Center campus (1/2 mile).
- Lit bay of Schulze Lake for skating and kicksledding (bring your own ice skates, free kicksleds provided). Weather permitting.
- Lit sledding hill for sledding. Bring your own sled.
- Ski pole and snowshoe rental available. (First-come, first-served, no reservations).
- Bonfires.
- Free cocoa available at Visitor Center and A-Frame Shelter.
- S'more stations at Schulze Beach bonfire.
- Holiday light recycling (we're collecting old, working and non-working holiday lights for recycling).
- 7:59 p.m. ball drop.
Winter Sound Garden
The New Year's Eve Party will include a special luminary edition of composer JG Everest's "Winter Sound Garden." This sound and performance installation will be in the woods around the A-Frame site.
The Winter Sound Garden is a self-guided "spatial symphony." It plays through more than 50 small speakers spread around the wooded paths. Each speaker plays a different part of the music, so the sound and mix of the music changes with each step and turn of the head. The sound garden will also feature live music by the Free Range Orchestra and Choir and a special song by Blue Lady.
Equipment rental
Snowshoe equipment rental and ski poles will be open and available if snow conditions permit. Equipment is available first-come, first-served, no reservations.
Parking
Once parking spaces fill at the Lebanon Hills Visitor Center, a free shuttle service to and from Woodcrest Church (525 Cliff Road) is available from 4:30-8:45 p.m. One of the shuttle buses is equipped with a wheelchair lift.
Volunteers needed
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Weather cancellation policy
Full refunds will be issued if the event is canceled due to weather. If forecast 24 hours in advance calls for the air temperature to be below zero degrees Fahrenheit or the wind chill to be 10 degrees below zero Fahrenheit at 8 p.m., the event will be canceled.
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