🎇 Your Mile High Guide to Fireworks & Festivities | | Hey there, Denver explorers! | This week, the skies over Denver are doing more than just looking pretty—they’re lighting up with fireworks, drone shows, parades, and patriotic jams. Whether you’re all about rooftop views, park blankets, baseball booms, or a small-town celebration with funnel cakes and music, we’ve got you covered. Scroll on for the ultimate list of where to catch a spark this Independence Day. 💥 | | 🌸 Mile High Trivia Time! | 👉 Tap your guess — we’ll reveal the answer at the end of the newsletter! | | All the Fourth of July Fireworks Shows Around Denver | | You bring the blanket and snacks—we’ll bring the list. Whether you’re catching fireworks from a rooftop, a ballpark, or the local soccer field, here’s your guide to where the skies will light up across Denver and beyond this Fourth of July weekend: | 🎆 In Denver | 🎇 Indy Eve @ Civic Center Park (July 3)
Live music kicks off at 5 PM, followed by a drone show at 8 PM. ⚾ Rockies Fireworks @ Coors Field (July 4 & 5)
Stick around after the games for one of Denver’s best fireworks displays. 🎢 Elitch Gardens Fireworks (July 5 @ 9 PM)
Admission gets you thrills by day and a fireworks show by night.
| 🌆 Beyond the City | 🧨 Arvada: July 4 @ 9:15 PM – Stenger Soccer Complex 🎉 Aurora: July 4 @ 9:30 PM – Aurora Municipal Center 🎸 Brighton: July 3 & 4 – Carmichael Park & Riverdale Park 🇺🇸 Broomfield: July 4 @ 9:15 PM – Broomfield County Commons ⚽ Commerce City: July 4 – Rapids Game + Fireworks at 4thFEST 🌳 Englewood: July 4 @ 9:15 PM – Cornerstone & Belleview Parks 🎇 Glendale: July 2 @ 9:15 PM – Infinity Park 🎆 Highlands Ranch: July 4 @ 9:30 PM – Highland Heritage Park 🎡 Littleton: July 3 & 4 – Clement Park & Hudson Gardens 🎭 Northglenn: July 4 – Festival + Fireworks @ EB Rains Jr. Park 🎉 Westminster: July 4 – City Park @ Dusk + Splash Bash Pool Party
| 🧨 Bonus Festivities & Events | Looking for more than fireworks? Try these: | 🎶 Big Belmar Bash (July 3) – Drone show & live music in Lakewood 🛥️ Red, White & Rock (July 3) – Yacht rock & fireworks @ Hudson Gardens 🎷 Stars and Stripes Forever (July 3) – Patriotic music + fireworks @ Breck Brewery 🎈 Park Hill Parade (July 4) – Denver’s biggest parade @ 1:30 PM 🎉 Golden’s Lions Park Fest (July 4) – All-day party with food, music, and fireworks
| | 🌆 Mile High Happenings | | | 🎆 That’s a Wrap | | Denver knows how to do the Fourth. From drone shows to baseball booms and community parades to park picnics, there’s no shortage of ways to spend your Independence Day. So grab your glow sticks, layer on the sunscreen, and cue the “oohs” and “ahhs”—it’s almost showtime. | ✅ Answer:B) November 17, 1858 | Denver was first platted on November 17, 1858, as “Denver City” in what was then Kansas Territory. It was later incorporated in 1861 and officially became the City and County of Denver in 1902. And yep—it was named after Kansas Governor James W. Denver, who may or may not have ever visited the city named in his honor. 🤷♂️ Now that’s what we call vintage city pride! | 🇺🇸 Happy Fourth from all of us at What’s Happenin’ Denver! | Let freedom (and fireworks) ring. 🎇 | — The What’s Happenin’ Denver Team 🫶 | 🚴 Bike trails & adventures in Colorado | 🌞 Day trips worth the drive | 🌿 Unique places to explore around the state |
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