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Fourth of July is on Wednesday and Independence Day events are scheduled for Southwest Colorado, with festivities and fun in Durango, Silverton, Bayfield, Mancos and Cortez.<\/p>\n
Cortez<\/em>Cortez Burst Triathlon at 6 a.m. at the Cortez Outdoor Swimming Pool, 803 East Montezuma Ave.<\/em>Fourth of July fireworks display at 9 p.m. at Parque de Vida, 400 N. Mildred Road.<\/em>For more information, visit www.cityofcortez.com<\/a>. <\/em>Mancos<\/em>Fourth of July barbecue at 5 p.m. at the Bauer House, 100 Bauer Ave.<\/em>Live music by Lawn Chair Kings at 6 p.m. at Mancos Brewing Co., 484 E. Frontage Road.<\/em>For more information, visit www.mancoscolorado.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Rico<\/em><\/p>\n Rico<\/em>Fourth of July parade through town, with floats lining up at 10 a.m. at Town Hall on North Short Street.<\/em>Arts and crafts, music, a farmers market, and volleyball and horseshoes, noon to 3 p.m. at the park.<\/em>Burgers and brats at the firehouse. Navajo Tacos at the Burley Building.<\/em>Log-splitting and watermelon-eating contests at 1 p.m. at the Enterprise Bar and Grill.<\/em>Rico Light Parade at 8:30 p.m., starting at Soda and Silver streets. <\/em>The fireworks have been canceled.<\/em>Durango<\/em>Fourth of July River Parade all day at Mild to Wild Rafting, 50 Animas View Drive, www.mild2wildrafting.com.<\/em>Rotary Club of Durango events, including an All-American Gourmet Breakfast at 7:30 a.m.; Freedom 5K run at 9 a.m.,; live readings of \u201cAmerican Voices: What it Means to be an American\u201d at 9:15 a.m.; and gourmet barbecue picnic at 11 a.m. in Rotary Park, 1565 East Second Ave.<\/em>Patriotic Pedalers 60- and 40-mile bike rides led by professional cyclist Todd Wells at 8:30 a.m. at Park Elementary School, 510 East Sixth Ave.<\/em>Independence Day celebration with food and drink specials starting at 11 a.m. at the Cavern Bar and Grill, 640 Main Ave.<\/em>Fourth of July celebration by Building Homes for Heroes and the city of Durango at noon in Buckley Park, 1250 Main Ave.<\/em>Stars and Stripes Parade by the city of Durango at 5 p.m. on Main Avenue from College Drive to 13th Street.<\/em>Independence Day Dance by KSUT Public Radio and the city of Durango at 6 p.m. at Durango Transit Center, 250 W. Eighth St.<\/em>Live music will be provided by Southwest Civic Winds at 10:15 am. in Rotary Park, 1565 East Second Ave.; The Cannondolls at noon and The Pete Giuliani Band at 2:30 p.m. in Buckley Park, 1250 Main Ave.; Six Dollar String Band at 2:30 p.m. at 11th Street Station, 1101 Main Ave.; The High Rollers at 6 p.m. at Durango Transit Center, 250 W. Eighth St.; and Void Where Prohibited at 6 p.m. at the Balcony Bar and Grill, 600 Main Ave.<\/em>Note: The fireworks display is canceled in Durango because of weather trends and fire danger.<\/p>\n For more information, visit https:\/\/bit.ly\/2KukkWl<\/a>.<\/p>\n Silverton<\/em>2K, 5K and 10K Blue Ribbon Fun Run at 8 a.m. in Memorial Park, 1600 Greene St.<\/em>Fourth of July Parade and Water Fight at 10:30 a.m. near the intersection of Green and Blair streets.<\/em>Fourth of July Carnival and Silverton Brass Band Concert at noon in Memorial Park, 1600 Greene St.<\/em>Ducky Derby launch at 2 p.m. on Cement Creek at Memorial Park, 1600 Green St.<\/em>Green Street Fourth of July Block Party at 6 p.m. at the intersection of 12th and Green streets.<\/em>Note: The fireworks display is canceled in Silverton because of weather trends and fire danger. No vehicles or camping are allowed on Shrine Hill.<\/em>For more information, visit www.silverton4thofjuly.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n Bayfield<\/em>Bayfield Lions Club pancake breakfast at 7 a.m. at Lions Hall, 451 Church St.<\/em>Pie and Craft Sale at 8 a.m. at Calvary Presbyterian Church, 89 E. Mill St.<\/em>Fourth of July Parade at 10 a.m. on Mill Street.<\/em>Fourth of July festivities, including a Pine River Rotary Club beer tent, live music by Tomyris at 11 a.m. and a corn hold tournament at 1 p.m. in Joe Stephenson Park, 134 W. Mill St.<\/em>Serranos annual horseshoe tournament at noon in Eagle Park, 1189 Bayfield Parkway.<\/em>Note: Parking and a shuttle are available at Bayfield Church of Christ and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Bayfield Parkway. Handicap parking is available at Bayfield Town Hall.<\/em>For more information, visit https:\/\/bit.ly\/2lHowr1<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Durango, Silverton, Bayfield, Mancos, Cortez events listed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-64073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64073"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=64073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}