New York State Parks Lights Up Jones Beach With 1,000+ Drones for Memorial Day

Grizzly Entertainment worked with New York State Parks to produce a 20-minute drone show at Jones Beach State Park for Memorial Day weekend.

The show featured 1,000+ drones in the main visual sequence, with more than 2,000 drones in the sky at key moments to create seamless transitions between designs. Over the Atlantic Ocean, our team brought patriotic imagery, music synchronization, and large-scale aerial storytelling together for a public tribute honoring U.S. service members.

Each scene was planned to flow into the next with clean timing and strong visual impact. Our team managed the creative design, flight paths, staging, safety planning, and live-event coordination needed for a show of this scale.

This drone light show showed how public events can use aerial storytelling to create a shared moment that people remember.

Project highlights:

• Client: New York State Parks
• Location: Jones Beach State Park, New York
• Event: Memorial Day weekend
• Show length: 20 minutes
• Scale: 1,000+ drones, with 2,000+ drones in the sky during key transitions
• Creative direction: Patriotic visuals, music synchronization, and tribute storytelling