Your guide to Fourth of July celebrations in Anchorage and around Southcentral Alaska

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Anchorage

The Anchorage Fourth of July Pageant shall be held on Monday on the Delaney Park Strip. Hosted by Huycke Leisure, Koot’s and the Spenard Meals Truck Pageant, there shall be a parade beginning at 10 a.m., meals vans, carnival rides, video games, distributors, stay music, a 21-and-older beer backyard, and extra. The occasion is free and household pleasant.

The Anchorage Glacier Pilots and Anchorage Bucs are taking part in a doubleheader on Monday evening. The primary sport shall be at 7 p.m. with the second beginning at 10 p.m. Each video games shall be performed at Mulcahy Stadium in Anchorage.

Eagle River

On July 3, be part of the Eagle River Lions Membership for his or her annual Finis “Uncle Sam” Shelden Memorial Fireworks Extravaganza. The doorways open at 5 p.m. for this occasion with a beer backyard, stay music and leisure, a children space and extra. The fireworks present is at midnight, so resist an early Sunday bedtime so long as you may.

Wasilla

North of Anchorage, Wasilla shall be internet hosting a parade and mayor’s picnic on Monday. This all-day occasion, themed “Let Freedom Ring for All,” begins at 11 a.m. with the parade, adopted by the mayor’s picnic. The parade will begin at Wasilla Excessive College and finish on the Wasilla Police Division and the picnic shall be on the Iditapark garden. Cease in for a fast chunk or hang around all day to have a good time with the town of Wasilla.

[Above: Every year, a crowd gathers at Glacier View to see cars launching from a cliff as part of a uniquely Alaskan Fourth of July celebration. (Scott Jensen / ADN archive)]

Glacier View

Yearly, the small group of Glacier View turns into the house of what’s arguably probably the most Alaskan Fourth of July custom round: the automobile launch. It’s precisely what it appears like: Residents launch outdated automobiles, adorned for the vacation, off a cliff to their demise on the riverbed. Gates open at 10 a.m. on the Glacier View River Retreat, and automobiles begin to fly off the cliff at 2 p.m. Convey a chair, as a result of spectator automobiles won’t be allowed into the viewing space. Meals obtainable for buy on website. Tickets are $10 for youngsters and $20 for adults.

Kenai

The Kenai Chamber of Commerce is internet hosting a parade and related festivities on Monday. The occasion shall be held on the Kenai inexperienced strip with the parade set to start out at 11 a.m. on Fidalgo Avenue in Kenai. The occasion will function a beer backyard, stay music, native distributors and a child’s carnival.

Seward

There may not be a greater Alaska summer time duo than the city of Seward and the Fourth of July. Seward shall be stuffed with excessive spirits, competition cubicles, fireworks and barely out-of-their-mind athletes all weekend. Mount Marathon, the annual footrace up and again down the steep and rocky slopes, shall be happening on Monday. Different occasions over the course of the weekend embrace a ship parade and a conventional parade, contests like a three-legged race, tug-of-war and a Blackwater Railroad Firm pop-up present at 4 p.m. Monday.