Truckee’s Fourth of July fun includes a morning parade, evening music and nighttime fireworks.

The annual Firecracker Mile leads the festivities with a one mile race along the parade route down Donner Pass Road from US Bank to the Train Station.

The parade, which starts at 10am, offers up close views of the legendary Wells Fargo horse-drawn stagecoach, and the famous Truckee River Precision Drill Team. Several of the nation’s top Olympic athletes, including Julia Mancuso, Tamara McKinney and Travis Ganong, will be riding on the floats.

Fireworks start at dark over Donner Lake. If you don’t have a ticket,  find an open dock, or glide your kayak or canoe (carefully!) onto Donner Lake, park yourself and wait for the lightshow.

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