UPDATED: July 4th Festivities & Fireworks

June 28, 2025/Mari Lou

    Friday, July 4, 2025
    MILTON

    • Milton Memorial Park from 10am – 2pm 2024
      Bring Mayberry Back to Milton! Fun for the whole family – classic games and crafts to Delaware’s largest water balloon fight.


    LEWES

    Old Fashioned 4th of July Celebration 2025

    • Old-fashioned games for the kids on Second Street beginning at 9am
    • At 1:30pm the Boat Parade down the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal to Fisherman’s Wharf (should be passing the judges’ stand around 2pm) To be eligible for a prize – must be registered by 3pm on July 3rd – forms available at Lewes Chamber Visitor Center & Lewes Harbour Marina Bait & Tackle – info -call Chamber at 302-645-8073)
    • At 5pm the Doo-Dah Parade begins on King’s Highway, Savannah Road and to Second Street   
    • Dusk – Fireworks from Lewes Beach


    BETHANY BEACH 

    • Parade at noon (floats can be registered online until noon 7/3. Day of registration – in person from 9 to 10am (SEE BELOW) 
      Awards ceremony at 7:15pm   
    • Evening entertainment at the Bandstand at 7:30pm from “Rick K’s “Motown to Mars and Beyond” 
    • Fireworks at dusk

    Reminder: Streets will be shut down for the parade – plan accordingly At 9:00 a.m. the 100 block of Central Boulevard and Campbell Place will be closed for float staging along with the 200 block of Central, and N. Pennsylvania Avenue from Garfield Parkway to Central Boulevard.
    At 11:45 a.m. all of the east side is locked down. 
    At approximately 1:00 p.m. Garfield Parkway south will open once the tail end of the parade has cleared Garfield Parkway. The north end remains closed until the parade reaches the Church at approximately 2:00.
    Trolley service limited – expect longer wait times. NO trolley operation between 11 and 3pm.


    LAUREL  

    • 8:00am.- Prayers Breakfast @ Abbott’s 
    • 12pm – Vendors: Set-Up at 12pm./ Selling 3pm 
    • 4–8pm – Car Show: Janosik Park – Early Registration 3pm
    • 3–5:45pm – Silverheart (1 st Band): Janosik Park 
    • 5pm – Mayor’s Challenge: Janosik Park 
    • 5:30pm – Cornhole Tournament: Janosik Park 
    • 6:30pm – Final Grove (2nd Band): Janosik Park (play till Fireworks begin)
    • 7pm – “Let Freedom Ring” Parade (line up begins at 6pm on Evergreen Drive)
    • 9:15pm – Fireworks begin at disk

     

    DEWEY BEACH 

    • Fireworks on the Bayside at McKinley Street – 9-9:30pm (will be visible throughout town)


    OCEAN CITY – 2 Fireworks displays 

    • Northside Park, 125th Street –
      Music at 8pm and fireworks at 9:30pm
    • Downtown on the Beach –
      Music at 8pm at Caroline Street Stage and fireworks at 9:30pm

    Best option – take the bus or from West OC park & ride – parking free – shuttle $4 all day Parking is limited throughout town – Bus fare – $4 ride all day. Parking rates at Inlet Lot will increase to $6/hour on July 4th.

    For boaters – Route 50 bridge will remain closed to marine traffic at usual 10:25 & 10:55pm opening times. Bridge will reopen for boaters at 11:25pm


    SALISBURY 

    RED, WHITE & BOOM 2025

    • Gates open at 6pm – Food trucks & Plenty of free parking Bring blanket or lawn chair
    • Fireworks at James M. Bennett High School at 9:15pm..   

    The fireworks will be visible nearly everywhere in town – you can join your friends and neighbors at JMB or celebrate the 4th with elsewhere around town.

     

     

    Saturday, July 5, 2025

    REHOBOTH BEACH

    • 7:30am – Firecracker 5K 
    • 8pm – Music with the Funsters at the Bandstand – before and after the fireworks (ending at midnight)
    • 9:30pm – Fireworks  (but could begin earlier)

    Spectators should be in town early!!

    • Bandstand will be closed to vehicle traffic from 6pm – midnight
    • Parking Information –
      – Use the DART Park & Ride
      – Metered & non-metered fee permit parking spaces throughout town where available
      – Jolly Trolley
    •  Residents on Henlopen Avenue, in Henlopen Acres, and North Shores must access their residences via Second Street beginning at 7 pm
    • Vehicles will not be able to cross Rehoboth Avenue at the circle beginning at 7:30 pm.
    • Rehoboth Avenue eastbound and Church Street from State Route 1 will be closed to vehicular traffic beginning at 8 pm. At that point, all vehicles entering Rehoboth Beach will have to do so via State Road to Bayard Avenue.

    After the fireworks –

    • Vehicles north of Rehoboth Avenue will be directed to exit via Rehoboth and Columbia avenues. Vehicles on the south side of Rehoboth Avenue will use Bayard Avenue to State Route 1 southbound only or Hickman or Munson streets to State Road to Route 1 north- and southbound.

     

    SNOW HILL

    • 5-9pm  Downtown Snow Hill & Sturgis Park – games, food vendors, live entertainment and fireworks at dusk

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