Orange County inhabitants celebrated the Fourth of July with community runs, festivals, backyard barbecues, and fireworks that lit the sky at night. Traditional events returned this time around after the epidemic dampened the 2020 Fourth of July celebrations. Orange County held its ever-popular fireworks display, whereas the Huntington Beach Pier Festival returned. In 2021, Huntington Beach turned its usually big parade into multiple convoys, which snaked through the city’s neighborhoods, to avoid drawing big crowds.
A hilly San Clemente neighborhood held Disaster On Casters, which is a race of rolling chairs that doubled up as a party for all the residents of the area. A Huntington Beach tradition since the year 2005, racers used odd ways of transportation such as wheel barrels and office chairs in the event. Here, we will look at some of the other highlights from the 2021 US Independence Day.
- Some members of the American Legion Huntington Beach Post 133 were in one of the vehicles that went through the US city in the local Fourth of July Parade.
- People gathered at Orange County’s Fred Kelly Stadium on the eve of the US Independence Day to watch fireworks that go off into the sky.
- Kids had a good time in the Brea’s Country Fair’s annual event that featured food, rides, games, baby contests and so forth.
- Members of the Tustin High School’s band marched in the Independence Day Parade in Tustin, California. The theme for the 2021 July 4th Parade was ‘Reach for the Stars’.