The Weatherford Hotel’s 22nd Annual Great Pinecone Drop

Twenty-two years ago, the Great Pinecone Drop became Flagstaff’s New Year’s Eve tradition in 1999, when the Weatherford Hotel rang in the new millennium and honored the Hotel’s 100-year anniversary. Since then, thousands have gathered in the streets for the countdown into the New Year and the lowering of the Pinecone followed by a brief fireworks display. This year, the tradition has nuanced and will occur VIRTUALLY-ONLY as revelers carry-out and settle-in for the Great Pinecone Drop at pineconedrop.com with a special performance by the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet.

This year the Great Pinecone drop is shown Virtual only. 
GATHERING ON THE STREETS IS PROHIBITED. THANK YOU!

A DIY pinecone drop from home!

If there was ever a time for an in-home small gathering New Year’s Eve celebration, this is it. But how do you and your family ring in the New Year with Flagstaff style? 

For thought starters:

Prepare the traditional pinecone to be dropped. 

- Make it simple: Get your crew together. Paint or spray adhesive onto pinecones, add various colored glitter, string them together and gently hoist them down a tree? Too cold outside, hoist the pinecone from a door, a floor lamp, from something tall inside your home . . . you get the idea. Make it work for you.

- Perhaps it’s carving a pinecone from Styrofoam, painting it the various colors represented on The Weatherford Hotel’s original pinecone, and then sliding a wooden dowel in the center in which it can slide down.

- Think about your own count down mechanism which could be as simple as using your smart phone’s timer. Assign someone to actually start the timer, give them a drum roll introduction.

Show us what you create? 
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For more than 100 years, the Weatherford Hotel has punctuated the Flagstaff skyline, enduring many changes and historical milestones.