Celebrate another beautiful Seattle summer at the Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival, which will have live bands, food vendors, and both model boats and actual wooden sailing vessels. Credit: boatbliS.S./Flickr

Celebrate another beautiful Seattle summer at the Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival, which will have live bands, food vendors, and both model boats and actual wooden sailing vessels.

Celebrate another beautiful Seattle summer at the Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival, which will have live bands, food vendors, and both model boats and actual wooden sailing vessels. boatbliS.S./Flickr

The long Fourth of July weekend is almost here, and, although there are lots of excellent cheap and easy options for celebrating the holiday itself, there are also plenty of other things to do in the days leading up to Monday that are not strictly Independence Day-related. We’ve compiled all of your options for free and cheap (under $10) entertainment below, from the Free Bike Party and the Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival to Freeway Park in Bloom and KEXP Rocks the Dock. If the options below aren’t enough, make sure to check out our complete Things To Do calendar.

FRIDAY
1. The Beer Junction’s 6th Anniversary
Celebrate the Beer Junction’s sixth anniversary with a special sixth anniversary IPA from Cloudburst—with “Galaxy, Citra, Mosaic, Simcoe, and Mandarina hops.” (West Seattle, free entry)

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