New Year's Eve 2025 in Ponte di Legno: The 7 best things to do

New Year's Eve celebrations are often synonymous with a big dinner at a restaurant or within the walls of home with family and friends.

In Ponte di Legno, the most popular destination is the Miramonti Chalet Grand Gala, which every year holds an exclusive party at the foot of the ski slopes with a gala dinner followed by a disco party.

If, on the other hand, you prefer a quieter place, you can opt for Ristorante Frigidolfo, which serves excellent traditional local dishes, or Ristorante San Marco with a more elegant atmosphere and an excellent menu designed especially for the last night of the year.

After enjoying your New Year's Eve dinner, you can make New Year's Eve adrenaline-filled with a fantastic snowmobile excursion to Ponte di Legno with which you can go up the ski lifts after they close and enjoy exceptional views.

In addition, thanks to the snowmobile, you will reach a hut where you can enjoy a delicious dinner, and then return to the valley by a slightly shorter route than on the outward journey.

This is a unique experience that we recommend at least once to try in order to experience the thrill of the mountains without the classic crowds that characterize especially the holiday periods.

We remind you, however, to bring warm winter clothing because temperatures, after the sun goes down, can drop well below zero

Another traditional event held every year on the evening of December 31 is the ski instructors' night torchlight procession. This is a very special spectacle in which the ski instructors together with their tricolor torches descend from the Corno d'Aola to the arrival of the Ponte di Legno slopes, illuminating the ski facility with the typical colors of our flag.

After the arrival of all the instructors, however, the show is not over as you can turn your eyes toward the Castellaccio where the fireworks will begin to greet the start of the new year.

Also, in the days leading up to the end of the year, there are several other New Year's Torchlight Par ades throughout the Tonale Pass area.

If you want to end the old year or start the new one in the name of sport, we highly recommend that you take part in a panoramic snowshoe hike in Ponte di Legno that will take you to discover wonderful winter landscapes surrounded by snow.

The experience lasts about 3 hours and can be adapted according to the level of the participants allowing to ensure a perfect excursion even for beginners and the less trained.

At the end, you will also be recommended an excellent shelter where you can enjoy a lunch and recover your energy

In addition to the torchlight parade and traditional New Year's Eve dinners, during the last month of the year Ponte di Legno comes alive with other numerous events.

There è for example, the Winter Opening Party 2024 which this year è is themed "years '90". So get ready to dance to the most famous songs by the most beloved artists of the '90s such as 883, Gabry Ponte and Gigi d'Agostino.

We also host the Ice Music Festival, which isn't held exactly on New Year's Eve, but in the following week and is a perfect opportunity to extend your stay in the mountains.

In fact, a series of rock, pop and classical music concerts are held during this event

During your New Year's Eve in Ponte di Legno è d'obbligo, moreover, to make a visit of the historical center of the townà where you can stroll in the pedestrian island that offers you various opportunities for shopping of the most famous brands and for an aperitif in one of the traditional clubs of the area.

You can also admire the Church of the Holy Trinity dating back to 1685 and the Church of Sant’Apollonio near Plampezzo.

Slightly outside the village, we also recommend a visit to the castello di Castelpoggio located in the locità Poia in which, in the same place, there was already a fortified structure dating back to the Longobard era that was later disused in 1455 following an edict issued by Venice which orderedò the destruction of all Camunean fortresses

Finally, in the organization of your New Year in Ponte di Legno can not miss the choice of where to stay. We know that the price of hotels at this time of year can reach some very high figures, but for this reason the consortium Pontedilegno-Tonale offers a portal for the search for hotels and one for the search for apartments available to everyone.

Among the hotels featured, we recommend theBlu Hotel Acquaseria, a 4-star hotel that is only a 10-minute walk from the city centerà and the La Tana dell'Orso hotel with a true mountain style and surrounded by greenery