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The city of Prairie du Chien will welcome the New Year with its annual “Droppin’ of the Carp” event near Wisconsin’s Great River Road.

On Dec. 31, a giant sausage will ring in the New Year in Elmore, OH on the Lake Erie Coastal Ohio Trail.

Celebrate the arrival of the New Year at the Midnight Madness Walleye Drop in Port Clinton on the Lake Erie Coastal Ohio Trail in Ohio.

In Girdwood, Alaska just off the Seward Highway, skiers and snowboarders at Alyeska Resort will hold a New Year’s Eve torchlight parade down Mt. Alyeska, followed by one of the biggest firework displays in Alaska.

Plan now to visit the Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway in Oregon and California for the oldest birding festival in the nation — the 2009 Winter Wings Festival on February 13-15, 2009 at the Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls.