Pensacon ... the final frontier .... These are the voyages of Downtown Pensacola. It’s a three-day mission: to explore strange new events.... To seek out celebrity photo ops and unique speakers and panels.... To boldly go to the Pensacola Bay Center on Feb. 22-24, where many fans have gone before!

A brand new year is here, and if you're ready to make some New Year's resolutions that you might actually keep, head downtown and try our list of creative ways to maintain your resolutions in 2019:

The holidays are almost upon us and soon we'll be turning on the holiday lights for the First City Lights Festival, immediately following the Winterfest Elf Parade on Friday, Nov. 23. Our historic streets are at their most beautiful under the glow of twinkling lights, and downtown shops, restaurants, galleries, bars and attractions are welcoming holiday shoppers with open arms. 

Black Friday is almost here. Prepare yourself. If thinking about a dizzying crush of frantic shoppers makes your head spin, may we suggest shopping along the historic streets of downtown Pensacola, where you can stroll at your own pace and browse an eclectic mix of unique shops, boutiques and galleries? The heart of the city is at its most festive this time of year, when the “traffic” you’ll encounter will likely include a miniature replica train, a holiday trolley, a horse-drawn carriage and, possibly, a gaggle of Segways.

On Black Friday the Downtown Improvement Board's annual holiday lighting ceremony will kick-off the First City Lights Festival, a season-long lineup of  diverse holiday events that range from Ballet Pensacola’s “The Nutcracker and a “Little Spruce” makers market,  to Christmas lights tours with Go Retro, Winterfest trolley performance tours, O'Riley's Holiday Pub Crawl and many others.