{"id":277830,"date":"2026-06-25T14:16:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/277830\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T14:16:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:16:42","slug":"73rd-annual-lompoc-flower-festival-kicks-off-today-queens-parade-saturday-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/277830\/","title":{"rendered":"73rd annual Lompoc Flower Festival kicks off today, Queen&#8217;s parade Saturday | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 73rd annual\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lompocvalleyfestivals.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lompoc Valley Flower Festival<\/a>\u00a0kicks off this afternoon at Ryon Memorial Park, celebrating &#8220;America in Bloom: 250 Years&#8221; with four days of games, carnival rides, craft vendors, food booths and live musical performances.<\/p>\n<p>The event will take place June 25-28, and pay homage to the country&#8217;s quarter millennium (250 years) anniversary on July 4.<\/p>\n<p>During the four days, vendors and entertainment begin at 11 a.m., the carnival area begins operations at 2 p.m. and closes at 10 p.m. on Thursday and Sunday, and 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Queen&#8217;s Parade will take place Saturday at 10 a.m., beginning at the intersection of North H Street (Hwy. 1) and College Avenue, heading south along H Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Admission to the festival is $7 for ages 12 and up; $5 for ages 6-11; and free for ages 5 and under. Admission is free for all before 1 p.m. on Thursday and Friday only. All parking is $10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 73rd annual\u00a0Lompoc Valley Flower Festival\u00a0kicks off this afternoon at Ryon Memorial Park, celebrating &#8220;America in Bloom: 250&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[106780,25246,157,106190,3056,106778,10164,267,106116,106781,106188,9,24,63,273,122,124,123,106779,106189],"class_list":["post-277830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-america-in-bloom-250-years","tag-carnival","tag-entertainment","tag-entertainment-events","tag-festivals","tag-flower-festival-queen","tag-lifestyles","tag-local-news","tag-lompoc","tag-lompoc-valley-festival-associatio","tag-lompoc-valley-flower-festival","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-parades","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-ryon-memorial-park","tag-walking-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}