Pier Park hosted its third Mardi Gras celebration March 4-5, 2011. 
It has been such a success every year, there is no reason to believe
it won't continue as an annual event.

The biggest attraction is the parade, which starts at the Seahaven
Condominium and winds all the way through Pier Park.  The celebration
culminates in a spectacular fireworks display over the Gulf of Mexico.

Forget Times Square!

The best New Year's Eve party is at Pier Park in Panama City Beach!  After celebrating the New Year in PCB with friends just one time, we decided it would be our New Year's tradition for years to come.

Have a wonderful New Year's Eve dinner at one of PCB's great restaurants, stroll through Pier Park, listen to a live band, enjoy the festive atmosphere with family and friends.  Pier Park throws a great family party, hands out free party favors (hats, glasses, noise makers) and drops an 800-pound beach ball at midnight.  Immediately following the beach ball drop, there is an amazing fireworks display over the City Pier.  You can watch the light show in the sky from Pier Park or head back to your condo balcony just before midnight. 

Schooners "The Last Local Beach Club" will host their 22nd Annual Lobster Festival & Tournament on September 15, 16, 17 and 18, 2011.

Lobster Tournament Divers will compete in a variety of categories.  The Lobster Festival attracts divers and lobster-lovers (thousands of them!) from all over the Southeast.  It is truly a culinary extravaganza.  The freshly caught lobsters are prepared in a multitude of delicious ways; grilled, fried, sauteed, broiled, chilled, steamed, blackened, whole, halved, skewered, in soups, in dips, even in hushpuppies!  And that's not all!

The 2011 Seabreeze Jazz Festival at Pier Park Amphitheater was a huge success.
Attendance was up 25% from last year.

If you consider great shopping, beautiful artwork, delicious food and the smooth tones of live jazz music appealing then this festival represents an ideal time for you to visit Panama City Beach! 

Frank Brown Park in Panama City Beach has become a popular hosting facility for summer softball and baseball tournaments.  The Tournament Schedule is posted online.

The park offers over 200 acres dedicated to outdoor recreation facilities surrounding the beaches, including softball/baseball fields, T-ball fields, soccer and football fields, tennis courts, outdoor basketball courts, shuffleboard courts, an indoor gym, playground and picnic areas, a salt water fishing pier, a fresh water youth fishing lake, and greenways and trails that are open year round. 

Thunder Beach takes place every year in both the spring and fall.  The spring 2011 rally ended May 1.  Fall dates for 2011 are September 29 through October 2.  And future dates through 2015 are available on the Thunder Beach official website.

Thunder Beach has come a long way in the few short years since its 1999 beginning, when it was called "The Bike and Beach Bash."  The event continues to evolve and improve, therefore drawing bikers, vendors and exhibitors from all over the country and demonstrating great potential for a bright future. It is becoming known as the fastest growing bike rally in the Southeast.