With Bel Air's Main Street and high school still under construction, the town's 4th of July events will be held at the new locations that hosted them last year. The parade will march down Bond Street, the turtle races and frog jumping contest will take place at Shamrock Park and the fireworks will be launched from Rockford Park, according to the Bel Air Independence Day Committee's website. Only the Bel Air Lions Club's pancake breakfast will remain in its traditional spot at the Bel Air High School cafeteria. Click here for a good list of the times and locations for all the 4th of July events on the committee's website. If you want to save a good spot to watch the parade, folks start staking out their spots along Bond Street a day ahead of time. By evening you'll see almost the entire parade route lined with blankets and lawn chairs held in place with bricks. Folks clever enough to anticipate an overnight rain lay down a plastic tarp to mark their spots. The parade starts at the intersection of Gordon and Bond streets (just past Kleins) and heads down Bond Street, continues past Route 1 where Bond Street becomes Kenmore Avenue and then follows Kenmore to Main Street and ends two blocks later at Idlewilde Street. Click here for a map. The parade starts at 6 p.m. and usually lasts about two hours. Finding a spot to watch the 9:30 p.m. fireworks from their Rockfield Park location is a little tricky. Last year, BANV and family set out to find a spot at the very last minute as it looked like rain might cancel the event. (Click here for details of last year's fireworks.) We ended up finding a good spot to watch with a lot of other folks in the Greenbrier Shopping Center parking lot. People were lined up all along Churchville Road watching from under rain ponchos last year. And one reader of this blog mentioned that she found a good spot right across from Rockfield Park. However, police shut down that part of Churchville Road a little bit before the fireworks started. If you found a good spot to watch the fireworks last year and you're willing to share it, please post a comment about it below. Thanks.
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The Town Public Works has been known to go around rounding up blankets and chairs on the streets the night before the parade, I'd be wary of putting anything out that you're not willing to part with.
As a nit-picky aside, the fireworks are in Rock"field" Park.
If th weather holds up a little better than last year, look for a pretty big crowd, given that it's all going down on a Friday...
If that is true about the chairs, it's about time! I hope they pick them all up and clear the streets. I've been complaining about that for many years. If you want to save a space, do it like the concert ticket lines - make somebody stay with the chairs and blankets. If I show up for the parade an hour early and have to stand behind a group that dropped off a placeholder and shows up right when it starts, I'll have to subject them to my obnoxious play-by-play commentary for the whole parade.
My problem lies in the "new locations"...Now, especially in the days of gas that costs a million dollars, we have to move from location to location, in order to get from one event to another! At least when it was all at the school complexes, you could stay in ONE location, and be able to enjoy ALL of the events ALL day long!! Did Bel Air REALLY think this through??
Those were some of the worst fireworks ever. I have been very disappointed with the quality that Bel Air has had the past three years. Beside that they are hard to see and people everywhere who did not even know they began because the ones private people were shooting were more spectacular than the ones from Bel Air. Does anyone agree with this?
The M&T Bank and Safeway parking lots were insane! However, I got lucky finding a really good spot without anyone else around elsewhere. While I'd like to share, I think I'll keep this one to myself. If I make it public knowledge, I'll undoubtedly be looking elsewhere next year (I'm a late arriver and HATE crowds). I thought the fireworks were average at best - nothing that a little Jack and Coke couldn't cure.
This is only my second year watching the Bel Air Fireworks but I have to say they are repetative, low and boring! We watched from behind John Carrol. We got there via the walking path.
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