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Mobile Mardi Gras 2025 Parade Schedule

View and download the 2025 Mardi Gras parade schedule, complete with dates, times and routes for all Mobile and Baldwin County parades.

Behind the Scenes: Building a Mardi Gras Float

Go behind the scenes as artists get ready for the revelry and see how the pageantry comes to life.

Quiz: You Think You Know Mardi Gras?

Only an in-depth knowledge of the customs, founders and symbols make you a true Mardi Gras aficionado. Answer these 30 questions to see how you rank, Carnival-style.

Designing the Ultimate Mobile Mardi Gras Train

Leading ladies, kings and queens will be dripping in rhinestones and shimmery satins come Mardi Gras. But what does the ultimate Mobile Bay train look like? Designer Julia Greer Fobes maps it out.

Don’t Rain on Our Parade

A close-knit group of Mardi Gras lovers can always be found on Battle House balcony on Fat Tuesday, no matter the weather.

Mardi Gras 2024 Parade Schedule

It's the most wonderful time of the year. Let the good times roll, Mobile!

Ask McGehee: Who was the British nobleman who served as king of Mobile’s Mardi...

The only British-born monarch of Mobile’s Mardi Gras was Arthur Shirley Benn. The year was 1896, but he served under the name of “Emperor of Joy” rather than King Felix.

MoonPie, MoonPie, Fly to Me

Whether being thrown from a float, caught mid-air or dropped from a building, no town does MoonPies like Mobile.

The Mardi Gras Master of Make-Believe

John Augustus Walker changed the world of float design and made Mobile’s Mardi Gras a sight to behold.

A Look at the Art of Mardi Gras

In all its gaudy grandeur, Carnival utilizes — and manifests itself in — every form of art.

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