{"id":466,"date":"2013-11-26T03:17:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T03:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mackinacblog.com\/?p=466"},"modified":"2026-05-06T05:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:43:13","slug":"star-spangled-fourth-of-july-fort-mackinac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mackinacblog.com\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Star Spangled Fourth of July &#8211; Fort Mackinac  &#8211; July 4, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MackinacStateHistoricParks\/photos\/a.10151893582960402.874375.98006400401\/10151893585355402\/?type=3&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fscontent-lax1-1.xx.fbcdn.net%2Fhphotos-prn2%2Fv%2Ft1.0-9%2F563285_10151893585355402_137897981_n.jpg%3Foh%3Dd5f5cef2527877c83bf0ca0f73adae67%26oe%3D56270E92&amp;size=960%2C638&amp;fbid=10151893585355402\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mackinacparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_3599-300x147.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>July 4 @ 9:30 am &#8211; 7:00 pm<\/p>\n<p>An America250 event! The historic island fort is decked out in patriotic finery with banners, flags and bunting. It is an 1880\u2019s Independence Day, with 38-gun salutes honoring the states of the period and children\u2019s games. Guests join the party and participate in games on the fort parade ground.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss out on this all 1880s Independence Day as we have catch and baseball available on the parade ground to go along with foot and relay races, a band, a reading of the Declaration of Independence, the raising of the colors, the national salute (38 rifle blasts for the 38 states of the 1880s!), a cannon salute, and much more!<\/p>\n<p>Music will start at 3:00 p.m. Games will be available on the parade ground beginning at 3:15 p.m. The reading of the Declaration of Independence, raising of colors, toast, and national salute will begin around 4:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Tea Room Restaurant, operated by Grand Hotel, is open all day serving snacks, sweets, and beverages, and will have full lunch service from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>All special programming is included with regular admission to Fort Mackinac.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mackinacparks.com\/event\/a-star-spangled-fourth-of-july\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Visit Mackinac Island State Park Website &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&lt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 4 @ 9:30 am &#8211; 7:00 pm\nAn America250 event! The historic island fort is decked out in patriotic finery with banners, flags and bunting. It is an 1880\u2019s Independence Day, with 38-gun salutes honoring the states of the period and children\u2019s games. Guests join the party and participate in games on the fort parade [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3,9,27,63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mackinacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mackinacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mackinacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mackinacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mackinacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mackinacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mackinacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mackinacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mackinacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}