Plan your Carnival outing
Local Mardi Gras advice
Choose a topic for practical advice about watching an Orleans Parish parade and getting around New Orleans.
- When is Carnival?
- Watching a parade
- Where to watch with kids
- When to arrive and how long to stay
- Finding a comfortable spot
- Walking and crossing the parade route
- Getting a rideshare from inside the box
- Food and restrooms along the route
- Throws and signature keepsakes
- What is a krewe?
- Parade trackers and delays
- Weather and parade changes
- Marching bands, Rolling Elvi and Disco Amigos
- King cake season and the baby
- Walking parades and streetcar celebrations
- Box of Wine before Bacchus
Start with a parade
Choose a date in the 2027 parade calendar, then check the parade’s route before picking a block.
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