If you live on the peninsula, you already know that July in downtown Tiburon isn't a scattered calendar of events. It's the same half-mile of pavement, from the corner of Beach Road and Tiburon Boulevard through Ark Row to Fountain Plaza and the waterfront, hosting a different program every few days. The Fourth stacks a parade, a block party, and a fireworks vantage onto that single loop. Friday Night on Main closes the same stretch to cars a few weeks later. Old St. Hilary's runs its own shuttle circuit up the hill from a parking lot two blocks away. Living here is less about picking events and more about learning the loop's cadence.
This is the July field guide for the people who already walk that loop on a normal Tuesday.
The Fourth, Broken Down By Block
This year's Fourth is unusually loaded. It's America's 250th, San Francisco moved its official fireworks launch to the Golden Gate Bridge itself, and the Tiburon Peninsula Chamber added a new opener to the downtown lineup.
Here is the actual sequence, in the order it unfolds along Main Street:
- 4:00 p.m. — Pooch Parade kickoff at Beach Road and Tiburon Boulevard. This is the inaugural year.
