{"id":360454,"date":"2026-07-03T23:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T23:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360454\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T23:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T23:05:18","slug":"fireworks-and-festivals-18-austin-area-events-to-celebrate-americas-250th-birthday-central-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360454\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks and festivals: 18 Austin-area events to celebrate America\u2019s 250th birthday | Central Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city\u2019s annual Fourth of July event will include a morning bike parade, bounce houses, live music, food trucks and more. The celebration will end with a fireworks display at 9:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Red, White &amp; Dink<\/p>\n<p>Pickle Pit Stop is hosting a pickleball community day with competitions, live music, open play, food and drink trucks, a cornhole tournament and door prizes.<\/p>\n<p>July 4; 8 a.m.-1 p.m.Free (live music), $5 (drop-in pickleball), $30 (instructional session from noon-1 p.m.)12915 Nutty Brown Road, Austin<a href=\"http:\/\/www.picklepitstop.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.picklepitstop.com<\/a>City of Westlake Hills July 4th Parade<\/p>\n<p>Westlake Chamber of Commerce will host an Independence Day parade with costume contests, live music and free food. The costume contest categories include most patriotic, best dressed pet and best \u201cthing on wheels.\u201d The parade route will travel down Westlake Drive, Rocky River and Reveille Road.<\/p>\n<p>Bastrop\u2019s Annual Big Bang Celebration<\/p>\n<p>The Fourth of July event includes a Pet &amp; Pedal Parade, a downtown scavenger hunt, live music, lawn games, bounce houses, water slides, an obstacle course, concessions and fireworks. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own lawn chairs and blankets.<\/p>\n<p>Annual Sertoma Independence Day Parade and Frontier Days<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city\u2019s annual Fourth of July event will include a morning bike parade, bounce houses, live music, food&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45930,72722,132,134,133,13491,18789,2536,28489,727,14354,45945,11283,15082,359,8885,6240,2428],"class_list":["post-360454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-4th-of-july","tag-america-250","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-bastrop","tag-buda","tag-cedar-park","tag-del-valle","tag-festival","tag-fireworks","tag-independence-day","tag-leander","tag-liberty-hill","tag-new-braunfels","tag-pflugerville","tag-round-rock","tag-san-marcos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}