New Year's parties happening in the Triangle

🎇 Watch Raleigh's famous Acorn Drop and take in fireworks at First Night Raleigh, or see if you can catch them from one of the rooftop bars that have proliferated across downtown.

• First Night will also feature amusement rides, tons of live music, art stations and a children's celebration area.

🍸 Attend a "Mob Wives"-themed party on the rooftop of The Durham Hotel, featuring a DJ, bubbles and caviar, with no cover charge.

🎤 Grab a four-course dinner at Boatman Spirits and then stick around for a show from Raleigh hip-hop group Kooley High.

🕰️ Dress up like it's the Roaring '20s at Birdie's Barroom's 1920s-themed New Year's Eve party in downtown Raleigh.

🎬 Take in the glamor of old Hollywood as Theatre Raleigh turns into a supper club in the style of a 1940s film studio on New Year's Eve.

🕹️Watch the "Stranger Things" finale at The Baxter Arcade in Chapel Hill and then stay for a dance party afterward.

• If arcades are your vibe, then the Boxcar locations in Durham and Raleigh will host New Year's Eve parties as well.

🍻 Head to Cary, where Sport & Social at the Fenton will have a big party for New Year's and downtown Champagne bar RBF will have a ticketed event.

🔎 Solve a murder mystery while celebrating New Year's at Yonder in Hillsborough.

🪩 Head to Durham for PS37's final party.