{"id":320351,"date":"2026-06-26T06:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T06:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/320351\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T06:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T06:29:07","slug":"fourth-of-july-events-to-close-cape-coral-bridge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/320351\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth of July events to close Cape Coral Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lee County Department of Transportation reminds motorists the Cape Coral Bridge will be closed for the Red, White &amp; BOOM! celebration from 3 a.m., Saturday, July 4, through 3 a.m., Sunday, July 5. Cape Coral Parkway from Del Prado Boulevard to the bridge will also be closed at that time.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are encouraged to use the Veterans Memorial Bridge, the Caloosahatchee Bridge (U.S. 41) or the Edison Bridge (Business 41). Lee DOT will place message boards for motorists; they will remain in place through the holiday and the closing. Motorists should plan for an alternate route. <\/p>\n<p>The Freedom 5K race begins at 7 a.m. on Independence Day. The city celebration begins at 5 p.m. at the foot of the bridge on the Cape Coral Parkway side. Fireworks will follow the celebration at about 9:30 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>For more race information, contact the Chamber of Commerce of Cape Coral at (239) 549-6900, extension 111. For information about Red, White &amp; Boom, call Cape Coral Parks &amp; Recreation at (239) 573-3128.\u00a0For more information about DOT, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leegov.com\/dot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">leegov.com\/dot<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lee County Department of Transportation reminds motorists the Cape Coral Bridge will be closed for the Red,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-320351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}