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Can’t make it to Times Square on New Year’s Eve? Worry not – chances are there’s a celebration closer to your home.

Communities across the United States are ringing in 2019 with homegrown variations on New York’s legendary ball drop. Celebrating with bologna or beach balls may be a far cry from watching the Waterford crystal ball in Times Square, but smaller celebrations reflect local traditions and civic pride.

Celebrating bologna, pickles and muskrats might be a far cry from watching the Waterford crystal ball in Times Square with a million of your closest friends. But smaller celebrations reflect local traditions and civic pride. Plus, you’ll have an easier time finding the bathroom.

Here are 19 destinations with their own takes on New Year’s Eve drops:

2. Mobile, Alabama: MoonPie drop

MoonPies – a marshmallow, graham cracker and chocolate coating treat – are popular across the South. So it makes sense a Southern city wants to give it a drop. In comes Mobile along Alabama’s Gulf Coast.

Along with watching a giant, 600-pound electric MoonPie drop, some 50,000 folks gather for a laser show, fireworks and beer garden.

For New Year’s Eve 2017, George Clinton is the headline act.

3. Flagstaff, Arizona: Pine cone drop

In Flagstaff, Arizona, revelers fill the streets to watch a 6-foot, lighted aluminum-and-copper pine cone be lowered from the roof of the historic Weatherford Hotel downtown.

Organizers chose a pine cone to represent Flagstaff’s mountainous locale amid the largest contiguous Ponderosa pine forest in North America.

Begun in 1999, the event includes two pine cone drops: one at 10 p.m. to coincide with New York’s Times Square celebration and another at midnight to mark Arizona’s big moment.

Organizers tell people to be sure to dress warmly. Flagstaff tends to be very cold on a winter’s night.

3. Fayetteville, Arkansas: Hog drop

They’re hog wild for New Year’s Eve in Fayetteville, located in picturesque northwest Arkansas. Naturally, the home of the Arkansas Razorbacks would gravitate toward a hog drop to go along with the fireworks.

Officially called Last Night Fayetteville, the party also features a variety of musicians, actors and comedians in different indoor venues and around the downtown square. If you’re driving from out of town, parking is free, and they promise the shows go on – rain, snow or shine.

4. Temecula Valley, California: Grape drop

unique NYE grapes

A cluster of grapes is an appropriate centerpiece for a New Year’s celebration in Southern California wine country. The illuminated cluster descends 65 feet from the third-story patio of the Civic Center clock tower.

Temecula Valley’s grape drop features a “custom-crafted, illuminated cluster of grapes [that] descend 65 feet from the third-story patio of the beautiful Civic Center clock tower.”

Partygoers begin to gather at nightfall for live music, before the grapes descend with both an East Coast and West Coast countdown.

5. Key West, Florida: A few to choose from!

unique NYE wench

Leave it to Key West to come up with multiple, eccentric drops.

Two: Red high heel drop

Famed drag queen Gary “Sushi” descends in a giant red high heel shoe from the balcony of the Bourbon St. Pub. VIP balcony tickets usually sell out fast, and Duval Street is jammed with people who party into the wee hours.

Three: Lowering of the pirate wench

Visit the tall ship America 2.0 in front of Schooner Wharf Bar to see “pirate wench” and bar owner Evalena Worthington descend the ship’s mast.

Four: Conch shell drop

The conch shell is an enduring symbol of Key West, and this drop happens above Sloppy Joe’s.

Five: Key lime wedge

Head to The Porch (on Caroline Street not far from the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum), where they’ll be dropping a chive unicorn at midnight. They promise “multitudes of tomfoolery throughout the evening.”

6. Panama City Beach, Florida: Beach ball drop

Party central of the Florida Panhandle has two countdowns.

The first is at 8 p.m. for the younger crowd, in which 10,000 inflatable beach balls are dropped from overhead, followed by fireworks. The second one is the midnight countdown, which involves an 800-pound LED-lit beach ball being lowered for the countdown to the new year, followed by more fireworks.

Both take place at Panama City Beach’s Pier Park, and musical acts are lined up.

7. Boise, Idaho: Potato drop

At Idaho’s annual Potato Drop, “Spec-Taters” gather at the capitol building in Boise for the lowering of a fiberglass GlowTato.

In addition to the fireworks and potato drop (the slogan is #DropItLikeItsHot), there are wrestling matches, an ice sculpture show, snow park, live music and a dance floor.

8. Vincennes, Indiana: Watermelon drop

Folks in Vincennes, Indiana, celebrate their locally renowned melons on New Year’s Eve with a watermelon drop.

Instead of slowly lowering a glittering sculpture of a melon (boring!), they drop a bunch of actual watermelons onto a raised wooden “splatform.”

You can also catch live music in a heated tent in this southwestern Indiana town on the shores of the Wabash River across from Illinois.

9. Hagerstown, Maryland: Donut drop

unique NYE donut

Krumpe’s Do-nuts’ is a Hagerstown institution, and its glazed variety is the focal point of this family-friendly New Year’s Eve celebration.

Its classic glazed variety is the focal point of Hagerstown’s family-friendly New Year’s Eve celebration, which started in 2013.

Festivities begin at 5 p.m. with free doughnuts and hot chocolate, and end at 7 p.m. with the 6-foot, 300-pound replica descending down the Hagerstown clock tower.

Festivities begin at 5 p.m. with free doughnuts and hot chocolate and end at 7 p.m. with the 6-foot, 300-pound replica descending down the Hagerstown clock tower.

10. Princess Anne, Maryland: Muskrat ‘dive’ in

unique NYE muskrat

The muskrat was trapped for pelts and meat for generations in the Chesapeake Bay region, making it a prime candidate for a New Year’s Eve mascot. Marshall Muskrat glides down a zip line in a top hat and cape during Midnight Muskrat Dive.

When the Midnight Muskrat Dive started in 2012, Marshall was lowered in a bucket truck. Now, he slides down a zip line for maximum visibility and audience entertainment.

Have a taste for Maryland oysters? They’ll be serving them.

11. Savannah, Georgia: Up the cup

In a twist, Savannah raises a giant to-go cup, instead of dropping one. The tradition is a nod to the city’s laws that allow pedestrians to carry alcohol in the streets in to-go cups.

When the big chili returns this year, a crane will drop it like it’s hot above Las Cruces’ Main Street in the center of town. Also on tap in this southern New Mexico city: Dancing, music, food and a beer garden.

12. Mount Olive, North Carolina: Pickle drop

unique NYE pickle

The home of Mt. Olive Pickle Company drops a 3-foot glowing pickle down a flagpole into a pickle tank outside its headquarters at Cucumber Boulevard and Vine Street.

The event happens outside company headquarters at Cucumber Boulevard and Vine Street (there are also Dill and Relish streets nearby). And good news, sleepyheads: The pickle drop occurs not at the stroke of midnight but at 7 p.m. ET – that’s midnight Greenwich Mean Time – letting kids and early-to-bed adults join in the fun.

There’s also a canned food drive to help feed hungry neighbors.

13. Port Clinton, Ohio: Walleye drop

unique NYE walleye

In the Walleye Capital of the World, located on the Ohio shoreline of Lake Erie, residents reel in the New Year with a 20-foot, 600-pound fiberglass fish modeled after the town mascot, Wylie the Walleye.

Walleye Madness at Midnight begins in the afternoon with a “minnow drop” for children and culminates in the lowering of Wylie before midnight, followed by fireworks.

14. Lebanon, Pennsylvania: Bologna drop

unique NYE bologna

The home of Lebanon bologna – not to be confused with minced bologna – is adding a papier-mache Bologna Ranger mascot to its festivities in 2018. The ranger will hold the town’s signature sandwich meat – albeit a smaller version than in previous years, when it reached up to 200 lbs and 12 feet in length.

The butchering, curing and sausage-making processes that distinguish Lebanon bologna from “minced bologna” is the stuff of lengthy academic papers.

Suffice to say, it’s enough to make the town’s signature export worthy of New Year’s Eve reverence.

15. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Wrench drop

unique NYE wrench

This small town west of Harrisburg drops a galvanized steel wrench that commemorates the mechanics who settled in the area to repair wagons traveling west after crossing the Susquehanna River. It’s the result of an Eagle Scout project by a Mechanicsburg Area School District graduate.

The galvanized steel wrench commemorates the mechanics who settled in the area to repair wagons that were traveling west after crossing the Susquehanna River.

This is true tool time: You can buy replica wrenches during the festivities.

16. Folly Beach, South Carolina: Flip flop drop

An oversized pair of brightly lit flip-flops is dropped in honor of this coastal community’s beachy footwear. The countdown is followed by a fireworks display.

Center Street closes to vehicle traffic at 10 p.m., and revelers are welcome to move into the street. The flip-flops drop to count down the last 10 seconds before the New Year followed by a fireworks display.

17. Plymouth, Wisconsin: Big cheese drop

unique NYE cheese

The Big Cheese Drop honors the region’s history as former home of the National Cheese Exchange, which helped establish cheese prices until 1955.

The 80-pound metal wedge is lowered from a 100-foot truck ladder. The lowering at the Plymouth Arts Center concludes at 10 p.m. to make it a family-friendly affair, but the wine-and-cheese partying continues with a toast at midnight.

The lowering at the Plymouth Arts Center concludes at 10 p.m. to make it a family-friendly affair, but the wine-and-cheese partying continues to midnight.

CNN’s Brandon Griggs and Forrest Brown contributed to this article. Originally published in December 2015, it’s been updated for New Year’s Eve 2017.