Fireworks Near Me: Milford July 4th 2025 Events

MILFORD, MA — 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 Milford.

To help you fit it all in on your 4th of July calendar, Patch has put together a guide to what’s going on in Milford and the surrounding areas.

July 4 Festivities For 2025

Milford Lions Celebration of Town Fireworks at Plains Park

Where: Plains Park
When: July 5, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Join the Milford Lions for Food and Fun while enjoying the Milford Town Fireworks at Plains Park on Cedar Street in Milford, starting at 6 p.m. on July 5.

The Lions will be serving sausages, hotdogs, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, popcorn as well as water and soda.

The Lions will be joined again this year by the New City Microcreamery serving delicious ice cream scoops, and New this year Citrus Got Real serving fresh-squeezed and flavored lemonades and limeades. Some with light-up flavors.

New this year is Sweet Inspirations with some sweet candies

Ronnie Auger will be spinning the music and stirring up some fun for the whole family.

Topping off the night is the spectacular fireworks display.

Admission to the park is free for everyone.

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.