{"id":199027,"date":"2026-05-21T17:11:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/199027\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T17:11:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:11:26","slug":"pittsburghs-fourth-of-july-celebration-named-best-in-the-country-by-usa-today-10best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/199027\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh&#8217;s Fourth of July celebration named best in the country by USA Today 10Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Pittsburgh and the nation prepare to celebrate the United States&#8217; 250th birthday, one of the best places you can do so is right here in the Steel City.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Readers of USA Today&#8217;s 10Best voted Pittsburgh&#8217;s Independence Day Celebration as the <a href=\"https:\/\/10best.usatoday.com\/awards\/city-of-pittsburgh-independence-day-celebration-pittsburgh-pennsylvania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">best in the country<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you to everyone who voted and helped showcase Pittsburgh&#8217;s incredible Fourth of July traditions, community spirit, and world-class celebration,&#8221; the city&#8217;s website reads.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>USA Today cited the view of the skyline to go along with the fireworks show on the Fourth of July.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh was able to beat out such iconic cities as Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., San Diego, and others.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s Independence Day Celebration is being described by the city as &#8220;the biggest celebration yet.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More information can be found on the City of Pittsburgh website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pittsburghpa.gov\/Recreation-Events\/Special-Events\/Independence-Day-Celebration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">this link<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh represented on USA Today&#8217;s 10Best<\/p>\n<p>The Fourth of July celebration is one of many times over the past couple of years that Pittsburgh has been honored by USA Today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, a ranking of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/pennsylvania-roller-coasters-theme-parks-best-in-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">best roller coasters<\/a>\u00a0in the country saw Pennsylvania as the best place for theme park goers. The Phantom&#8217;s Revenge at Kennywood took the number two spot, while the Phoenix at Knoebels in Elysburg, Pennsylvania, took the top spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a whole, Kennywood was voted fourth-best theme park in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Back in February, a ranking of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/pittsburgh-museums-national-recognition-usa-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">best museums<\/a>\u00a0in the country saw the Children&#8217;s Museum of Pittsburgh and the Heinz History Center take home the top spot in their respective categories, and the Kamin Science Center took home third.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Pittsburgh and the nation prepare to celebrate the United States&#8217; 250th birthday, one of the best places&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[40018,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-199027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-4th-of-july","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}