CherryT Ball Drop — a New Year's Eve tradition in Traverse City

Editor's note: This article was published in Grand Traverse Scene magazine's Holiday 2025 issue. Pick up a free copy at area hotels, visitor's centers, chambers of commerce or at the Record-Eagle building on Front Street. Click here to read GT Scene in its entirety online.

To echo the imagination-teasing theme of a popular 1950s TV show, “Look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a... giant red cherry!”