Come out and celebrate America’s independence a day early as the City of Marietta hosts the 2010 Fourth in the Park celebration beginning on July 3rd at 10am. The Independence Day celebration begins with the Marietta Freedom Parade that starts at Roswell Street Baptist Church and ends at North Marietta Parkway (click here for a parade map – PDF). After the parade there will be free live concerts and entertainment, museum tours, food, arts and crafts, carnival games, and of course fireworks.

Schedule:

2010 Schedule:
10:00am – Let Freedom Ring Parade
12:00pm – Colgate Country Showdown
2:00pm – National Bell Ringing
2:15pm – Parade Awards Ceremony
8:00pm – Peachtree Station
Dark – Fireworks

The parade spans a 1.5 mile route beginning at Roswell Street Baptist Church and heads west on Roswell St, then north on East Park Square through Marietta Square, then down Cherokee Street and finishing at North Marietta Parkway. The parade features more than two thousand participants in more than one hundred entries, and there will be an estimated thirty thousand people in attendance. Watch as local businesses, civic organizations, beauty queens, bands, scouts, National Guard, and numerous floats participate and compete for prizes based on design, color, theme, appearance, originality, and riders and costumes.

The Arts and Crafts show features more than eighty different vendors showcasing a wide variety of products. The vendors will be open from 10am to 9pm on July 3rd, 2010.

Food will be available from a variety of concessions beginning at 10am and ending for the fireworks at 9pm. Marietta Square restaurants will also be open for business.

Carnival games are available throughout the park at Marietta Square starting at 10am and ending at 5:30pm.

Fireworks light up the sky and patriotic music fills the air at approximately 9:30pm.

For more information, call the Marietta Parks and Recreation department at (770) 794-5601.