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Click on the Mardi Gras krewes below for further information about the krewe and to see their usual route for each parade. Please note: Events and activities are subject to change without notice. Stay tuned to the site for further info. This website from the city of New Orleans offers schedules, route maps and real-time GPS tracking of the lead and tail of New Orleans parades including the truck parades following Rex on Mardi Gras Day. One feature deserving of a bejeweled crown: users can view locations of public toilets put in place by the city for parades and special events. Mardi Gras 2025 is Tuesday, March 4. We're counting down the minutes. As Mayor of the great City of New Orleans, I invite you to visit our city to experience the excitement of Mardi Gras!" Mardi Gras 2024 in New Orleans: a preview of all parades, with dates and maps The 2024 New Orleans Carnival season starts on Saturday, Jan. 6, and concludes on Mardi Gras, Tuesday Feb. 13. +2 The 2025 New Orleans Carnival season starts on Saturday, Jan. 6, and concludes on Mardi Gras, Tuesday, March 4. With Rex, Zulu, doubloons, flambeaus, and king cake, Mardi Gras may sound confusing, but we’ve created the ultimate guide to help you understand all things Mardi Gras. Book your trip and head on down to New Orleans for the greatest and most historic celebration on earth. Mardi Gras Info from the City of New Orleans Mardi Gras is more than just king cakes and beads. It is a religious holiday, a season of traditions that we celebrate every year, and a time that our community comes together in formal, fun, and often unexpected ways. The New Orleans Carnival season will start on Monday, January 6, 2025, and end on Mardi Gras. Each year on January 6th, King’s Day (Feast of the Epiphany), the Carnival season officially begins, but the main revelry in New Orleans takes place over the 14 days leading up to Fat Tuesday. For a schedule of New Orleans' Mardi Gras parades visit: Mardi Gras in New Orleans is a one to a three-month stretch of the year in which the streets come alive with music, art, and costumed revelers. Beginning on Twelfth Night, January 6, the best season of the year is upon us: king cake, bead-tossing, and parading begins and only increases as we make our way toward Mardi Gras Day. A no parking on the parade route sign on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans is still covered in beads one week past Mardi Gras. Much of the Uptown route is still covered in Carnival debris Mardi Gras balls were exclusive events closed off from most people outside of New Orleans society until this krewe revolutionized the event. In 1949, Edward Brennan Sr. created the krewe, a carnival Ball open to tourists. Mardi Gras 2025 in New Orleans: a preview of all parades, with dates and maps The 2025 New Orleans Carnival season starts on Saturday, Jan. 6, and concludes on Mardi Gras, Tuesday, March 4. Email Celebrate Twelfth Night with the Société Des Champs Elysée, 40 merry revelers who float through the city on the Rampart - St. Claude Avenue Streetcar. The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA) operates bus routes across the city. Some regular routes are altered during the Mardi Gras season: All parade detours start two hours before the parade start time. Detours will remain in place until clean up crews’ finish cleaning the parade route. The 2025 New Orleans Carnival season starts on Saturday, Jan. 6, and concludes on Mardi Gras, Tuesday, March 4. New Orleans Social Clubs or Gentlemen's Clubs play a very large part in the Mardi Gras celebration. The oldest is The Boston Club (third oldest in the United States), founded in 1841 as a place for its members to congregate and partake in the fashionable card game of Boston , Rex Royalty is chosen from among its ranks. Click on the Mardi Gras krewes below for further information about the krewe and to see their usual route for each parade. Please note: Events and activities are subject to change without notice. Stay tuned to the site for further info. The Krewe of Centurions parade will begin at the intersection of Veterans Boulevard and Houma Boulevard. The parade will first go west (left) and will make the U turn just before Clearview Parkway and then continues east on Veterans Memorial Boulevard until it reaches Severn Avenue, where it will turn north (left). The 2024 New Orleans Carnival season starts on Saturday, Jan. 6, and concludes on Mardi Gras, Tuesday Feb. 13.
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