If you live here, you already know the Fourth of July weekend fills the calendar by itself. What is easier to lose track of is everything else July does. The town runs on a weekly rhythm of standing hours and small anchors, and the big two-day fireworks-and-parade weekend is really just the loudest point on a much steadier line.
This is a read on that line. Where to be, when things are actually open, and what the theater is doing between the tentpoles.
The two dates that pull the month around them
The Point Arena Merchants Association has confirmed the 2026 Independence Weekend runs on a split calendar.