Some places have fireworks throughout the summer, not just on Independence Day. In your opinion, what’s been the best place you’ve seen them? It can be a one-time event, or a place you go to every year.
In New Jersey, in the town of Seaside Heights (on the ocean, of course), they have a fireworks display every Wednesday after the Fourth, at 9pm. Most people stand on the boardwalk, necks craned like young birds waiting to be fed, watching the fireworks with awe and wonder as they were launched from the beach itself.
But I had a better idea. There’s a miniature golf place on the boardwalk right about at the spot where the fireworks show is. The course itself is on the roof of the place, so you just pay your $1.50 and can watch the whole show from the roof. You easily have the best seat in the house, and what a show it is!
Hopefully, I’ll find my way up there this year. Well, I know I will in August, anyway…
Anyone else?
I gave up my best secret here.
There’s also the fireworks for the San Gennaro festival in Naples in September. A three-hour extravaganza visible from anywhere around the bay.
Or hitting on Cinderella might get you a comfy seat in her castle at Disneyworld. (Fireworks every night, she gets around.)
This year I watched them out my window while laying on my bed. I live in Seattle and watched the best show I’ve ever seen. There were shaped-charge fireworks in the shapes of stars, smiley faces, and Saturn. I don’t really have a view home, but the fireworks shot far over my neighbors house in front of me. The show was a whopping forty minutes long!
I saw the same show a few years back from the roof of a house boat on Lake Union. The fireworks were exploding right over my head and it looked like the fireballs were going to hit me.
My best 4th of July fireworks experience was about 12 years ago, on Mt. Desert Island, Maine.
We drove about halfway up Cadillac Mountain, parked on the side of the road, sat down amongst the scrub pines, lit up a joint and looked DOWN on the Bar Harbor fireworks display.
The temperature dropped to about fifty degrees by ten PM, and we had to pull on woolly sweaters…afterwards drove back down, returned to our rented cottage, and drank Black Seal rum in front of the fire.
…have I ever mentioned how much I hate hot weather?
Montreal hosts the International Fireworks Competition on Saturdays and Wednesdays at 10:00 pm throughout the summer. The best place to see it is on the Jacques-Cartier Bridge, which is closed to traffic for the duration. (Metro Papineau.)
Columbus Ohio. Ditch the car for free in a construction zone, laugh at suckers who pay to park. Squeeze your way to the top level of the Juvinile Court parking garage. The PERFECT view, for free. Should get there early to stake out a position on the edge with chairs and blankets.
Then after that you play Horn War as 300k people all try to leave downtown at once. I found it quite funny when one guy kept beeping “shave and a haircut” over and over for 20 minutes, seldom getting another driver to add “two bits.” The people that came out of the surrounding residential buildings did not seem so amused.
The skies of Anaheim over Disneyland of course. How can you not love the nightly display over the castle? Afterall, it’s the happiest place on earth.