The Red Sox are wrapping up their first full season since the pandemic, including a full slate of non-baseball events even as organizers work to balance traffic woes from Fenway Park’s new music hall.

The party’s not over for fans of Fenway Park as managers lock in their schedule of winter events and finish establishing the MGM Music Hall. The National Hockey League (NHL) will be holding its Winter Classic in Fenway for the first time in over a decade, along with many smaller events that were put on hold during the pandemic.

That crowded slate comes at a price, with residents complaining of gridlocked traffic and persistent noise.

The Red Sox Foundation gave residents a clearer idea of its game plan during an October 17 community meeting, where representatives outlined the stadium’s event schedule for the coming months and fielded questions from the public.

In addition to its big-ticket items, the Foundation maintains a growing cohort of cultural nights like last year’s inaugural Juneteenth celebrations and the park’s largest ever Pride Night, which this year had its first ever drag performance.

The NHL will be holding its Winter Classic game in Fenway Park for the first time since 2010. That event will occur on January 2, or January 3 if inclement weather forces a delay. The rink will stay up well after that to give college hockey teams and women’s teams a chance to play later in the week. Other events like high school games and public skating should have time to take place, but managers aren’t making any promises beyond a ten-day period.

“We’re really happy the NHL selected Boston as a host site again. The ice won’t be down for three or four weeks as it’s been in the past because the NHL needs to get to the next site, but we’ll definitely have some high school games,” said Claire Durant, director of business and government affairs for the Red Sox.

MGM Music Hall was the other headliner, having started its programming just a few months ago. Its show schedule is now in full swing, but its institutional structure remains incomplete.

A promised system to give residents discounted access is yet to be implemented, and much of the October meeting was taken up by debate over the traffic caused by music hall attendees. Teddy Metropolis, The Red Sox’s head of special projects, said the neighborhood ticket program would come “in the next few weeks or so” and pledged to continue bolstering the number of employees running the hall.

“As with opening anything new, the past six weeks has been an incredible learning experience for us. We’ve learned a ton about the operation, how everything flows, how traffic flows around the music hall,” said Teddy Metropolis, head of special projects for the Red Sox.

“The one big thing we’ll continue to do is hiring so that we have bodies inside and outside the venue. It’s gone as smooth as any grand opening can with something so big, but we’re still finalizing plans.”

The music hall reports that attendees are less likely to use public transit than baseball fans and tend to order rides from Uber and Lyft right outside the venue’s doors.

Showrunners hope to alleviate that traffic jam by working with rideshare companies to create designated pickup and dropoff zones a short distance away from the hall itself.

“At this point frankly, we don’t have traffic metrics. We certainly don’t have the kind of traffic study you do pre-development, with someone going out and scientifically measuring cars. But we are evaluating on a human basis with our teams around the neighborhood and taking into account feedback we’ve gotten” said Dave Friedman, senior vice president of legal and government affairs for the Red Sox.

“If we and the city become concerned about days when there’s event overlap, we’ll just have to find that balance.”