America's 250th anniversary sparks travel rush as experts issue urgent booking warning

Families are already readying 2026 vacations this twelvemonth arsenic America turns 250, with plentifulness of historical destinations successful the spotlight.

The American Automobile Association (AAA) is spotlighting a fig of celebratory trips crossed the country, opening with an lawsuit successful Philadelphia.

"We urge travelers place which events they privation to be oregon tract they privation to sojourn and publication early," an AAA spokesperson told Fox News Digital this week.

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"Don't hold until the past infinitesimal to bargain flights oregon reserve hotels," the spokesperson added. "Especially implicit Independence Day play — erstwhile we historically spot grounds question numbers."

The Wawa Welcome America Festival, for example, is simply a 16-day solemnisation opening June 19 and lasting done July 4.

Various cities and locations nationwide are holding peculiar events this twelvemonth to observe America's 250th anniversary.  (iStock)

"This once-in-a-generation acquisition volition diagnostic events that Philadelphians person travel to cognize and love, conscionable bigger and better, including concerts connected Independence Mall, firework displays, artifact parties, Wawa Hoagie Day, a parade representing each states and territories," the website notes. 

Also noted for Philadelphia is The Museum of the American Revolution (MAR). An exhibition traces however the Declaration of Independence inspired akin movements astir the world.

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Just extracurricular Augusta, Georgia, is Meadow Garden, location to George Walton. It's been unfastened to the nationalist since 1901, making the spot 1 of the oldest location museums successful the U.S. It's besides featured connected the America 250 database by AAA. 

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Walton was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

There are "ongoing activities, similar the ‘Write Like a Signer’ experience, wherever young visitors tin effort their manus astatine quill writing," said AAA.

"We urge travelers place which events they privation to be oregon tract they privation to sojourn and publication early," said an AAA spokesperson. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Meanwhile, Emerson Colonial Theatre successful Boston volition showcase a historical opera from April 24 to May 3.

"The Daughter of the Regiment" tells the communicative of Deborah Sampson of Massachusetts, who disguised herself arsenic a antheral to articulation the combat for independence.

Three events are spotlighted by AAA successful the nation’s capital, starting with an AI show titled "The American Story" astatine the National Archives Museum, which volition connection a travel done 250 years of history.

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While the National Mall has already kicked disconnected the twelvemonth with illuminations connected the Washington Monument, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival volition instrumentality spot June 18 to July 12.

Near the mall, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History volition diagnostic assorted Declaration of Independence exhibits.

Outside Washington, D.C., Gadsby’s Tavern Museum successful Alexandria, Virginia, volition stock the communicative of erstwhile manager Hannah Griffith.

"Don't hold until the past infinitesimal to bargain flights oregon reserve hotels. Especially implicit Independence Day weekend, erstwhile we historically spot grounds question numbers," said an AAA spokesperson.  (iStock)

Griffith ran the coffeehouse from 1785 to the aboriginal 1800s, offering conscionable 1 illustration of the roles women played during the Revolutionary War.

Also successful Virginia is the First Baptist Church of Williamsburg, which was founded for enslaved and escaped African Americans.

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"Organized successful 1776 — astatine a clip erstwhile Black radical faced terrible restrictions connected their close to stitchery — the congregation has been a cornerstone of resilience and faith," AAA notes.

"It's important for radical to spot themselves successful this commemoration and important for them to consciousness inspired for our country's future," said the seat of the America250 commission.  (iStock)

One of the largest celebrations to instrumentality spot connected the East and Gulf Coasts is Sail250.

International fleets of gangly ships and navy vessels volition dock successful New Orleans, Norfolk, Virginia, Baltimore, New York, and Boston bringing parades, tours, fireworks and more.

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Rosie Rios, seat of the America250 commission, antecedently told Fox News Digital, "It's important for radical to spot themselves successful this commemoration and important for them to consciousness inspired for our country's future."

Congress created The U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission successful 2016 to program and orchestrate the 250th day of the founding of the United States. Rios is simply a erstwhile treasurer of the U.S.