{"id":328601,"date":"2026-07-03T17:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328601\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T17:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:07:12","slug":"fireworks-near-me-july-4th-events-around-tampa-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328601\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks Near Me: July 4th Events Around Tampa For 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When: July 4 and 6, park closes at 10 p.m.; July 5, park closes at 11 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Where: Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, 10165 McKinley Drive, Tampa<\/p>\n<p>Celebrations around the country recall not only the events leading up to the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, but also look forward and aim to make the 4th of July weekend a massive, multigenerational cultural moment focused on community connections and charitable giving. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/america250.org\/americas-block-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">America\u2019s Block Party<\/a>, an unprecedented coast-to-coast initiative, is one of the signature events of <a href=\"https:\/\/america250.org\/calendar\/?view=map&amp;date=allFutureEvents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">America 250<\/a>, the congressionally chartered nonprofit overseeing the semiquincentennial celebration. <\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/america250.org\/news\/america250-announces-historic-giving-4th-broadcast-benefit-show-with-eight-ball-drop-celebrations-to-mark-midnight-in-each-american-time-zone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Times Square Ball Drop<\/a>, a rolling series of ball drops, timed to occur at midnight on July 3 in every U.S. time zone from Guam to American Samoa, is part of the \u201cGiving 4th Broadcast Benefit Show,\u201d creating a nearly 24-hour celebration of the 250th anniversary. It\u2019s part of the broader \u201cGiving 4th\u201d initiative that aims to make and establish Independence Day the biggest annual day of giving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When: July 4 and 6, park closes at 10 p.m.; July 5, park closes at 11 p.m. Where:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-328601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328601","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=328601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}