Atlanta's best fireworks display and Independence Day festival is at downtown Centennial Olympic Park's Fourth of July Celebration. Festivities include music, children's activities, and our famous fireworks display against the beautiful downtown skyline. Onstage entertainment begins at 6 p.m. and the fireworks commence at 9:30 p.m.

Each year, thousands of people come to the Park to celebrate Independence Day and MARTA is strongly encouraged. Take the West Line to the Philips Arena/Dome/GWCC Station (W-1), or take the North Line to Peachtree Center (N-1), and follow the signs to Centennial Olympic Park.

Centennial Olympic Park's Fourth of July Celebration is family oriented, but pets are best left at home. For safety and the upkeep of the Park, glass bottles are not allowed.

Guests are welcomed to bring food and non-alcoholic beverages, or enjoy the great tastes of the FountainSide Café, which serves a variety of sandwiches, salads, hot dogs, cookies, Danish pastries and muffins. In addition to the FountainSide fare, food vendors for the celebration include barbeque ribs and chicken, fried fish and chicken wings, Italian ices, snow cones, candy apples, cotton candy and ice cream.

A lasting legacy of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Centennial Olympic Park has become a performing-arts venue, community gathering-space and an anchor for downtown development. The Georgia World Congress Center Authority operates the 21-acre Park, as well as the Georgia Dome and Georgia World Congress Center. The three state-owned facilities are one of the largest combined sports, entertainment and convention center facilities in the world.