Get excited.. NFC Wild Rivers Symposium 2019 kicks off the North Fork Championship tomorrow, then back for the main event this Thursday. Don’t miss world-class athletes compete for the championship on the longest stretch of whitewater in the USA! Kudos to James Byrd+co. for bring such awesomeness to Idaho! https://www.facebook.com/events/348084792432583/
We will be back for our third year at the the Famous Idaho® Potato Marathon!
The YMCA Famous Idaho Potato Marathon, presented by the Idaho Potato Commission, is a fun full marathon, half marathon, 10K or 5K course along the Boise, Idaho greenbelt. All courses are flat and fast! This marathon can be used to qualify for the 2020 Boston Marathon. Bring the entire family out for this event! We have a distance that will work for everyone.
What a great day it was yesterday to be an Idahoan! Raising almost 2 million dollars for local nonprofits the Idaho Nonprofit Center did a wonderful job supporting and helping get this local nonprofits some much needed aide. Coming in at number 1 for $175,000 was the Idaho Humane Society. Warms our hearts to know that animals will be taken care of and staff will be able to help keep them warm and safe.
This event is happening in just two days! Put on by the Idaho Nonprofit Center this day of giving is overwhelming for local non-profits. It makes us happy to be from Idaho to see all the people so willing to GIVE. If you have not check out this wonderful non-profit effort please visit their website https://www.idahogives.org
We love to donate to community causes! The Boise Metro Chamber Gala will be hosting over 900 business on October 10, 2019! We are so happy to be involved in the auction and donating some Idaho® Potato Drop stuff. Famous Idaho Potatoes Big Idaho Potato Tour Grown in Idaho#idahopotatoes
We were so happy to be a part of the 4th annual car show this last weekend. The donation basket went to a classic Lincoln Continental with suicide doors and only 39,000 miles. The owners of the car where extremely nice people and very excited about the Idaho® Potato Drop prize. Congratulations!
We love living in a community that is so giving and supportive of the local non-profits. Each year we highlight amazing non-profits by providing them with a space at the event, donations and marketing to promote their mission. Check out our vendors page to see the non-profits that joined us for 2018 https://idahopotatodrop.com/vendors/
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New Year is one of the most special celebrations, with one of the best things about New Year’s Eve being the fact that it is celebrated and enjoyed all over the globe. Everyone, regardless of their background, can enjoy great food, good company, awesome parties, magical firework shows, live entertainment, and more as they ring in the New Year in style, and there are many different forms of New Year celebration enjoyed all around the world. One of the most iconic images of New Year’s Eve is the Times Square ball drop in New York City, in which a large time ball is lowered down the spire on the roof of One Times Square to symbolize the ending of an old year and the beginning of a new one.
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The Big Apple has its ball drop, but Boise, Idaho has a drop of a different kind: a potato drop. The Idaho Potato Drop is a special and completely unique New Year celebration that only takes place in the city of Boise. It’s been running since 2014, initially at the US Bank Building and then at the Idaho State Capitol building. Despite only being a recent innovation, the Idaho Potato Drop has charmed the city of Boise and become a hugely popular moment on the city’s calendar. Fully free to attend, this special event lets Boise citizens and visitors to the area enjoy a New Year’s Eve they’ll never forget, complete with food, drinks, live entertainment, fireworks, and more, culminating with the dropping of the eponymous potato itself.
What to Expect at the Idaho Potato Drop
Running from 3pm through to 1am in the city of Boise, the Idaho Potato Drop is one of the best annual events in the state. While the ball drop event over in Times Square, NYC, is mostly centered on the dropping of the actual ball, with a lot of waiting around beforehand, the Idaho Potato Drop offers a full party experience, with lots of fun things to see and do all around Downtown Boise. Various parks and stages will be set up at the event offering live entertainment, activities, food, and drinks for people of all ages to enjoy.
There’s a family area, a VIP area for those who have chosen to pay for a VIP ticket, a main stage with headline musical acts, a snow park with all sorts of frosty winter fun activities, a wrestling ring, and so much more. The evening will also include the titular dropping off a gigantic potato over the State Capitol building and an incredible fireworks show, as well as a rail jam. It’s a huge, bombastic event with so much to offer, sure to live long in the memory and provide you and your family with lots of smiles and excitement. In short, it’s one of the very best ways you could ever hope to spend a New Year’s Eve.
The VIP Experience at the Idaho Potato Drop
The Idaho Potato Drop is fully free to attend, but it does rely on funds raised through sales of merchandise and VIP tickets, as well as sponsorships, in order to survive and offer the best experience possible for everyone. If you’d like to give something back to the organizers of the Idaho Potato Drop while also enjoying exclusive shows and services that the general public won’t have access to, you might want to invest in an Idaho Potato Drop VIP ticket.
With this ticket in your hands, you’ll be able to enjoy full VIP treatment and care for every single stage of the amazing potato drop experience. You’ll gain access to the VIP room, enjoying 360 degree views of the event from a covered, sheltered location, while also being able to enjoy acoustic, exclusive shows from some of the event’s best musical acts. Not only that, but your VIP pass for the Idaho Potato Drop will also let you enter an exclusive raffle with the chance to win some crazy prizes, so it’s definitely worth the money if you want to enjoy a magical New Year’s Eve.
Volunteer with Idaho Potato Drop
If you’d like to be a part of the action, you can even choose to volunteer to work at the Idaho Potato Drop and ensure that the event goes smoothly for everyone and is the best it can possibly be. The organizers rely on the kindness of volunteers to bring their vision to life, and you can sign up to be a volunteer by simply providing your name, contact info, and a simple message about your availability and how you might be able to help out via an online form on the official Idaho Potato Drop site. As a volunteer, you won’t be paid for your work but you will be rewarded with exclusive gifts and perks, as well as being able to enjoy the event from a behind-the-scenes perspective. website
On this day, a wave of red from coast-to-coast will unite millions of people for a common goal: the eradication of heart disease and stroke, our nation’s number one and number five killers. Join us by wearing red and sharing your photo on social media using the hashtag #IdahoGoesRed.
We are so excited with the turn out for last year! With 2020 approaching next year we are already hard at work for new ideas. We would love to see your images and video. We would love to hear your ideas ad thoughts. Who would you like to listen to on the main stage while we ring in the new year? What activities would you like to see at the drop? We would love to hear from you Idaho because we love you!
Who wants 2019? We do! The stage is set for a magical new year’s eve this year. Join the afternoon festivities and boogie on down through the night with live music and entertainment. Our website has frequent updates make sure to take a peek. See you at the drop
We will be out at Albertsons’s Stadium to promote and help with Channel 7 cares this Sunday. It is a wonderful cause and a great event. We hope to see you there. All donations welcome! The best part of this time of year is giving. Any amount of money or food helps.