Stars, stripes, and street closures – 2025 Independence Day fireworks
June 10, 2025
The City of Rehoboth Beach is set to put the “ooh” and “ahh” into the 2025 Independence Day holiday with a fireworks display to launch around 9:30 pm on Saturday, July 5. Weather permitting, the display will launch from the beach around Brookyln Avenue and be visible along the beach and boardwalk.
Festivities at the bandstand include a free concert by the Funsters, which begins at 8 pm and continues after the fireworks.
To ensure safety for all spectators, the following road closures will be implemented July 5:
- The bandstand area will be closed to vehicular traffic from 6 pm-midnight.
- Beginning at 7 pm, only bus traffic and residents will be permitted on Henlopen and Surf avenues.
- Residents on Henlopen Avenue and in Henlopen Acres and North Shores must access their residences via 2nd Street beginning at 7 pm.
- Vehicles will not be able to cross Rehoboth Avenue at the circle beginning at 7:30 pm.
- Rehoboth Avenue eastbound and Church Street from State Route 1 will be closed to vehicular traffic beginning at 8 pm. At that point, all vehicles entering Rehoboth Beach will have to do so via State Road to Bayard Avenue.
- To exit Rehoboth after the fireworks, vehicles north of Rehoboth Avenue will be directed to exit via Rehoboth and Columbia avenues. Vehicles on the south side of Rehoboth Avenue will use Bayard Avenue to State Route 1 southbound only or Hickman or Munson streets to State Road to Route 1 north- and southbound.
Additionally, noparking will be allowed in the following locations:
- Surf Avenue
- Convention Center parking lot
- around the bandstand
- Grenoble Place and Surfside Place
- marked spots in part of the ocean block of Laurel Street
Visitors are encouraged to walk or bike into town or utilize DART’s Park and Ride service. The pickup location for all DART routes after the fireworks is the Henlopen Hotel.
