It may not have been to ring in the New Year but Steamboat, Colorado certainly knows how to light up the night sky in celebration. The Colorado ski town set off this monster 62 inch, 2,797 lbs mortar packed with 380 individual comet fireworks back in 2020 during their annual Steamboat Springs Winter Carnival.
The master pyrotechnicians at Steamboat Fireworks were behind the explosive display and used a 26 foot steel tube buried in Emerald Mountain to launch the mortar at 300mph to an altitude of nearly 1 mile in the air before it detonated. Officials from Guinness World Records were on hand for the launch and certified it as “Largest Aerial Firework Shell.”
Happy New Year!