{"id":325929,"date":"2026-07-01T13:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/325929\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T13:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:37:11","slug":"road-closures-hit-cape-coral-and-fort-myers-beach-on-july-4-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/325929\/","title":{"rendered":"Road closures hit Cape Coral and Fort Myers Beach on July 4 | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"

LEE County, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Road closures are planned across Southwest Florida\u00a0for\u00a0Fourth<\/a>\u00a0of July celebrations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Cape Coral Bridge and surrounding roads will close starting at 3 a.m. on Saturday through 3 a.m. on Sunday for the\u00a0Freedom 5K race<\/a>\u00a0and Red, White & BOOM event.\u00a0The closures include Cape Coral Parkway from SE 15th Avenue\/Cape Coral Street to the bridge and Del Prado Boulevard from SE 47th Terrace to Miramar Street\/Waikiki Avenue.<\/p>\n

The Freedom 5K race begins at 7 a.m. on Independence Day, followed by Red, White & BOOM at 5 p.m. at the Cape Coral Bridge. Fireworks are scheduled for approximately 9:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

Motorists seeking to access Cape Coral Parkway from Del Prado Boulevard will be rerouted to make a U-turn. Alternate routes include the Veterans Memorial and Business U.S. 41 bridges.<\/p>\n

In Fort Myers Beach, Estero Boulevard will be closed to traffic from Donora Boulevard to Old San Carlos Boulevard on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. as part of the town’s Fourth of July parade route, according to an official document.<\/p>\n

Matanzas Pass Bridge will be closed from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. for the parade and from 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. due to the fireworks show. Officials are asking residents and visitors to plan ahead and allow extra travel time during parade activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEE County, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Road closures are planned across Southwest Florida\u00a0for\u00a0Fourth\u00a0of July celebrations. The Cape Coral Bridge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325,115],"class_list":["post-325929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325929","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=325929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}