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 happen at Cypress on December 31st in 2024. The event features live entertainment, DJ music and a fireworks display.

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).

In 2024 the New Year’s Eve celebrations at Cypress begin at 5:00 pm and run until 10:00 pm. The event includes DJ music and live entertainment on the mountain’s patio. There are also food and drink specials available throughout the evening. This year’s fireworks display starts at 8:00 pm.

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.

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. The fireworks don’t appear to be happening in 2024 either. Hopefully they return in a future year.

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.