New Year’s Eve Street Party in Arizona Gives the Boot to 2022

Hundreds attend annual "Boot Drop," with hope for the new year ahead

The number 2023 looms large on a building just hours before the traditional New Year's Eve Boot Drop, a regional favorite, in downtown Prescott, Ariz., on Dec. 31, 2022. Allan Stein/The Epoch Times

PRESCOTT, Ariz.—It wasn’t the big ball dropping in Times Square, but the effect was just as spectacular in downtown Prescott, Arizona, on New Year’s Eve.

The year 2022 got the boot, so to speak, as revelers by the hundreds rang in 2023 with the annual New Year’s Eve Whiskey Row Boot Drop.