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IN PICTURES: PARADE & FIREWORKS HIGHLIGHT UPPER KEYS’ JULY 4TH FESTIVITIES

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The Weekly Staff
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Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger

The Upper Keys celebrated Independence Day with a “Celebrating Freedom” parade and a pair of fireworks displays above Florida Bay. Some 100 parade participants dressed in red, white and blue hopped on floats, prepared the water guns and tossed candy to onlookers along U.S. 1 in Key Largo during the morning. By the evening, Rowell’s Park in Key Largo and Founders Park in Islamorada welcomed local residents and visitors to view the fireworks. In Islamorada, the festivities included an apple pie baking contest and red, white and blue parade for the pups.

  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Riley Ensign, 11, fires her water gun during the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Ensign said she’s gunning for the “Prom Queen” and that last year she knocked her tiara off her head with her water gun. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Riley Ensign, 11, fires her water gun during the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • Sights from the Key Largo Fourth of July Parade, Tuesday July 4, 2023. Photo by Doug Finger
  • DAVID GROSS/Keys Weekly
  • DAVID GROSS/Keys Weekly
  • DAVID GROSS/Keys Weekly

View aerial footage of the parade by David Gross: https://twitter.com/keysweekly/status/1676355467100954626?s=20

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