Watch the Downtown New Bern Mardi Gras Parade live! Join us as the parade rolls through downtown with a new route, lively music, colorful floats, beads, family activities, food trucks, and block party festivities. Valentina Wilson will be serving as Parade Queen 📍 Starting at Pollock Street near Firefly Café, turning onto Middle Street, and ending at South Front Street, this community celebration features live music, a Kids Zone, petting zoo, face painting, and more. Don’t miss the fun, second

Mardi Gras parade nights are just the best. The music, the floats, the kids scrambling for beads, everybody posted up in lawn chairs like it’s a major sporting event. It’s loud, it’s colorful, and it’s such a Coast tradition. You can always tell how much work the krewes put into it — those floats don’t build themselves. So I’ve gotta ask… what krewe are y’all in? 👑 Or are you just there for the beads and the king cake? | Mississippi Gulf Coast National Heritage Area

Happy Mardi Gras 2026 Gulf Shores & Orange Beach Mardi Gras Parades and Events 10 am – Gulf Shores Parade 2 pm – Orange Beach Parade 4 pm – LuLu’s Mardi Gras Boat Parade Plan to arrive early for the parades https://gulfcoastjourneys.com/mardi-gras-gulf-shores-orange-beach/ Gulf Shores Parade - There are Road closures starting at 7am for Parade staging in Gulf Shores. 9:35 am Hwy 59 from 20th Ave to Beach Blvd will close. Orange Beach Parade As early as 1pm Perdido Beach Blvd may close. Local res