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. 

Your little ones with love the American Clock and Watch Museum's Mad Hatter's New Years Eve Tea Party! Ring the bells at noon and enjoy some crafts, snacks, and of course - tea. 

Start the New Year a bit early at the Niantic Children's Museum's Countdown to Noon. You'll have just as much fun as the kids when you see the 300+ balloon drop!

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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 a Midnight Masquerade Gala with a robust dinner menu and overnight options.
• Foxwoods Resort Casino offers special activities including a throwback prom party and bingo bash.
• 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 40s-themed New Year's Eve Party featuring casino games, specialty cocktails, live entertainment, 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, dance party, and midnight balloon drop.
• The Inn at Mystic will be serving up delicacies at their gourmet dinner celebration with a side of live music, entertainment, and a midnight toast. 
• In Old Saybrook, the Saybrook Point Resort & Marina is ringing in the New Year with a New Year's Day brunch buffet.
• 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 2026!