{"id":348371,"date":"2026-07-22T09:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348371\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:53:15","slug":"tampa-bay-ice-cream-festival-returns-to-st-pete-pier-with-free-entry-and-rays-tickets-giveaway-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348371\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Ice Cream Festival Returns to St. Pete Pier With Free Entry and Rays Tickets Giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Ice Cream Festival kicks off at St. Pete Pier on Sunday, July 26, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. There is no admission fee. This marks year five for the celebration, though organizers pushed it back from its original July 19 slot due to weather concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Visit St. Pete Clearwater plans to hand out 1,000 Tampa Bay Rays tickets at their booth. First-come, first-served.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovetheburg.com\/tampa-bay-ice-cream-fest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">I Love the Burg<\/a>, over 30 vendors will sell ice cream and frozen desserts at Pier Plaza. You&#8217;ll find soft serve, hand-scooped flavors, gelato, and popsicles \u2014 all available for purchase.<\/p>\n<p>The festival lands on National Ice Cream Day, which seems fitting. Competition categories this year cover Best Hard Ice Cream, Best Soft Serve Ice Cream, Best Non-Dairy Frozen Treat, and Best Overall Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Live music? Check. Activities for families? Yep, those too. Rain or shine, the show goes on.<\/p>\n<p>Parking sits in the pier lots and around downtown. The waterfront spot sprawls across 26 acres along Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Ice Cream Festival kicks off at St. Pete Pier on Sunday, July 26, from 11&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[684,575,202,204,203,199,201,200,3815],"class_list":["post-348371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-events","tag-food","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348371","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=348371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}