Jack Moyer, general manager of the Basin Park and Crescent hotels, holds up the giant ‘water drop’ that will be lowered 70 feet on the side of the Basin Park Hotel and land with a splash in the Ozarka Water Bucket at midnight on New Year’s Eve, capping off Eureka Springs’ ‘Free to Be’ New Year’s Eve Street Party. (Scott Loftis / Eureka Springs Times-Echo)

Mike Japczyk works on a steel beam atop the Basin Park Hotel that will be used as part of the water drop countdown on New Year’s Eve. (Scott Loftis / Eureka Springs Times-Echo)