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West Vancouver’s Cypress Mountain New Year’s Eve Celebrations

Cypress at New Year's Eve

Vancouver’s Cypress Ski Hill celebrates New Year’s Eve on December 31st with family-friendly activities and fireworks. It’s not a huge event, but it is free.

The resort’s annual New Year’s Eve celebrations happened at Cypress on December 31st in 2023. The event features live entertainment and DJ music. There were also going to be fireworks this past season, as there are at the event most years, but the pyrotechnics part of the night got cancelled. Hopefully the fireworks will be possible next year.

 

New Year’s Eve at Cypress Ski Hill

Season’s pass members and day ticket holders can usually enjoy marshmallow s’mores, bonfires, and a bit of entertainment on the evening of December 31st at Cypress Mountain’s New Year’s Eve festivities. Compared to parties elsewhere, it’s a pretty small event, but it’s free and fun (and usually finishes with fireworks, although not in 2023).

In past years there have been light snacks available beginning at around 5:00 pm. There has then been entertainment from between around 5:45 pm and 7:45 pm. In recent years this has included drumming by whoever wants to bang on a drum. The evening typically finishes with fireworks, as was the case in 2022.

In 2023 the New Year’s Eve celebrations at Cypress include DJ music and live entertainment on the mountain’s patio.

New Year’s Eve isn’t the only day of the year that Cypress hosts an evening with free fireworks. Most years over the Family Day Weekend in February there is a similar event.

 

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Who Can Attend

The New Year’s Eve celebrations at Cypress are typically only for paying “ski pass” and “day-ticket-holding” guests. It’s a free event though, and the main festivities are held just outside the chalet.

 

Cypress New Year Video

Below is a short video clip showing what happens at Cypress Mountain before the fireworks on New Year’s Eve. As you’ll see, it’s a small event, but both free and fun.

 

 

Other New Year’s Events in Metro Vancouver

Other places in the Lower Mainland have New Year’s Eve events, including at other ski hills.

Grouse Mountain, as an example, hosts an evening of family-friendly activities. Mt. Seymour, meanwhile, used to host its Family First Night which featured all kinds of live entertainment as well as snowshoeing, night tubing, sledding and fireworks. Unfortunately, that no longer happens.

In downtown Vancouver there used to be a massive New Year’s event at Canada Place, but that ended in 2018. The big fireworks display was set to debut even bigger and better at False Creek in 2020, but that was cancelled due to the pandemic. It hoped to run in 2021, 2022 and 2023, but they got cancelled those years too. Hopefully they return in 2024.

For more information about Vancouver’s biggest December 31st celebrations, click New Years in Vancouver for a list of over a dozen different places to party on the last day of the year.

 

Cypress Mountain at Night with Fireworks
Cypress Mountain Fireworks

 

Other Information

Click Cypress on New Year’s Eve for more information about the December 31st event at Cypress (although details there might be limited).

For more information about the ski hill, click Cypress Mountain.

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