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The Ben Franklin Bridge will celebrate its 100th anniversary with a free event on the Camden waterfront on Saturday, July 11.<\/p>\n
The celebration runs from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and will feature live music and entertainment, food trucks, carnival rides and activities for all ages. Visitors also can explore a pop-up museum and historical exhibits showcasing the bridge’s 100-year history.<\/p>\n
After sunset, the bridge’s LED lights will put on blue and green shows about every 30 minutes until 2 a.m. Each show will last about three to five minutes and can be be seen from both the Philadelphia and Camden waterfronts.<\/p>\n
The Ben Franklin Bridge opened on July 1, 1926, connecting Philadelphia and Camden across the Delaware River. The event is free, but advance registration<\/a> is encouraged.<\/p>\n Saturday, July 11 | 10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. July 11 | Dusk until 2 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n This content was generated by PhillyVoice Media Events, not by the newsroom staff.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.phillyvoice.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Ben Franklin Bridge will celebrate its 100th anniversary with a free event on the Camden waterfront on Saturday, July 11. The celebration runs from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and will feature live music and entertainment, food trucks, carnival rides and activities for all ages. Visitors also can explore a pop-up museum and historical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2485376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[489363,345880,322538,489364],"class_list":["post-2485375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-ben-franklin-bridge","tag-camden","tag-celebration","tag-delaware-river-port-authority"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Ben-Franklin-Bridges-100th-anniversary-celebration-will-feature-live-entertainment.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2485375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2485377,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485375\/revisions\/2485377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2485376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2485375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2485375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2485375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Ben Franklin Bridge 100th Anniversary Celebration<\/a><\/b><\/h3>\n
NJ side of the Ben Franklin Bridge
Near the Toll Plaza
Free to attend (registration encouraged)<\/p>\nBridge Lighting<\/b><\/h3>\n