July 4th 2025 Fireworks, Events Around Secaucus

SECAUCUS, NJ — 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 Secaucus.

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 Secaucus and the surrounding areas.

July 4 Festivities For 2025:

1. Town of Secaucus hosts their 2025 fireworks July 1 at town pool. Secaucus will host its July 4th party, fireworks and more on July 1. Come for live music, swimming and fireworks when it gets dark. Gates open at 6 p.m. Open to Secaucus residents only. Secaucus Swim Center, 2000 Koelle Blvd, Secaucus, NJ, 07094

2. Jersey City fireworks will return this year, but the details haven't been announced. With the Macy's fireworks over the East River and not the Hudson this year, more people will be looking for a way to see an Independence Day display. Jersey City spokeswoman Kim Wallace-Scalcione said that the daylong festival and later fireworks are still happening for July 4, but did not have all the details yet. The city's Department of Cultural Affairs posted that events will take place from noon until 10 p.m. at Exchange Place, centered at Montgomery Street and Green Street, near the waterfront. Updates will appear here.

3. Bergen County. Star-Spangled Spectacular held Friday, July 4 at Overpeck County Park in Ridgefield Park. The event is described as a patriotic afternoon of family fun, with two-dozen food trucks, a beer and wine garden and fireworks over Overpeck Creek.

The evening will feature the New Jersey Wind Symphony with a performance of Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture," complete with live artillery from Howitzer cannons.

Festivities are set to begin at 2:30 p.m. in the Ridgefield Park section of Overpeck County Park. The rain date is July 5.

The county announced last week the music and events lineup:

Schedule
2 p.m. – Event opens with DJ, food trucks, beer garden, and youth entertainment (inflatables)

2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. – Glenn Roberts Country Band
4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. – Tempo Alegre Latin Band
6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. – Super Trans Am Band
8:00 p.m. – New Jersey Wind Symphony
9:30 p.m. – Fireworks

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.