Quassy Amusement Park 4th Of July Fireworks 2025

WOODBURY-MIDDLEBURY, CT — Independence Day falls on a Friday in 2025, kicking off a star-spangled three-day weekend packed with fireworks, festivals and other Fourth of July fun in and around the Woodbury-Middlebury area

Here is information about the upcoming 3-D fireworks show at Quassy Amusement Park.

• What: Quassy Amusement Park 4th Of July Fireworks 2025
• When: Friday, July 4, after dark
• Where: Quassy Amusement Park

Spend the holiday at the park and enjoy 3-D Fireworks after dark with special viewing glasses which are being sold for $2.

Proceeds from the event will benefit Give Kids The World Village.

More information available on the Quassy website

Independence Day commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. In that document, the 13 original colonies declared their independence from Great Britain.

During the pivotal summer of 1776, the pre-Revolutionary celebrations honoring King George III’s birthday were replaced with mock funerals as a symbolic break from the crown.

It was an exciting time in Philadelphia — the Continental Congress voted to break from the crown and, two days later on July 4, the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the original 13 colonies —New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland. Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia — to adopt the Declaration of Independence.

The first annual commemoration of the nation’s independence was in Philadelphia on July 4, 1777, while the Revolutionary War was ongoing. Fireworks have been part of Fourth of July festivities since the first celebration in Philadelphia.

Today, Americans celebrate with fireworks, parades, concerts, and family gatherings and barbecues. Celebrations, though, predate by centuries the designation of Independence Day as a federal holiday, which didn’t happen until 1941.