Fourth of July Parade, Festival, and Fireworks

The City of Marietta is hosting the Fourth in the Park celebration beginning on July 4th at 10am. The festivities include a parade, entertainment, food, arts and crafts, carnival games, and of course fireworks.

Schedule:
10am – Let Freedom Ring Parade
Noon – Colgate Country Showdown
2pm – National Bell Ringing
2:15pm – Parade Awards Ceremony
2:30pm – Cobb Wind Symphony
8pm – 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 4th.

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 are scheduled to begin at approximately 9:30pm and will be launched from the First United Methodist Church parking lot. Patriotic music will be played during the event by KICKS 101.5 fm.

In the event of rain, the fireworks will be rescheduled for Monday, July 6 at 9:30pm.

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