Stormers to host free America 250 fireworks festival on July 3

Free admission, an 8:45 p.m. Lancaster Symphony Orchestra performance and a 10 p.m. fireworks show will anchor Penn Medicine Park's July 3 America 250 celebration, which will run from 5 to 11 p.m. The Lancaster Stormers will be on the road that night, leaving the ballpark property to stand on its own as a festival-sized July 3 gathering rather than a normal game-night promotion.

The schedule is built for a long stay. Food and beverages will be sold inside and outside the stadium from 5 to 10 p.m., and Penn Medicine Park event listings say guests should bring their own chair for the symphony and stage entertainment. The lineup stretches well beyond a postgame-style fireworks show, with wrestling, a car show, dance performances, hot-dog and pie-eating contests, a hypnosis show, bounce houses, a petting zoo, carnival games, vendors, reenactments, a pig roast, a splash zone in right field and pony rides among the attractions tied to the night. Three Legacies Wrestling and the Crazy On Clay Car Show are also part of the program.

The timing places the Stormers inside a larger Lancaster County America 250 calendar. Lancaster County hosted an America 250 open house at the Lancaster County Courthouse on June 25, and Lancaster City's America's 250th programming runs from June 29 through July 5. Lancaster's Revolutionary-era story gives the celebration extra weight: Discover Lancaster notes the city was founded in 1729, and it served as the nation's capital for one day when the Second Continental Congress met there on Sept. 27, 1777.

Lancaster Mayor Jaime Arroyo, the first Latino mayor in Lancaster City history, has become one of the public faces of that commemoration. Local coverage says Arroyo was elected in November 2025 and took office in January 2026, putting a new chapter of city leadership alongside a year already being used to showcase Lancaster's past.

For the Stormers, the night is less about a one-off promotion than about turning an Atlantic League ballpark into a public stage. With no home game on the schedule, a free admission policy and a property-wide lineup that runs from early evening into the fireworks, Penn Medicine Park is set to draw families, history-minded visitors and regular baseball fans into the same July 3 crowd.