There will be plenty of parades in New Orleans leading up to Mardi Gras, also known as Fat Tuesday. on March 4. Here's what you need to know.

Yes, Mardi Gras is celebrated every year with the exception of 2021, when New Orleans parades were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mardi Gras festivities in 2025 are already set in New ...

See photos of 2025 Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Contributing: Gabe Hauari, Emily DeLetter, USA TODAY. Taylor Ardrey is a news reporter for USA TODAY. You can reach her at [email protected].

Dancers in the Roux La La krewe perform for vehicles driving by during the Mardi Gras Float in the Oaks event in City Park, Feb. 14, 2021, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Mardi Gras celebrations erupt into a flurry of costumes and color on Fat Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023, in New Orleans, La. Parade-goers took to the streets of the city to dance alongside floats, catch ...

No parades, limited gatherings, shuttered bars and a ban on to-go drink sales. A normally raucous Bourbon Street almost devoid of people. Because of the pandemic, Mardi Gras 2021 is unlike any ...

In New Orleans, Mardi Gras is more than just one day. The celebratory season of Carnival begins on Epiphany, when we feast on king cake and bundle up for the Joan of Arc parade.

Mardi Gras is the third big test for New Orleans since the horrific Jan. 1 truck-ramming and shooting rampage on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter was allegedly carried out by a 42-year-old U.S ...

Around 1.4 million visitors packed New Orleans for Mardi Gras 2020 in what’s suspected to be one of the first major superspreader Covid events in the United States. Revelers walk down a mostly ...

Born and raised in New Orleans, she met her husband on the sidelines of the Krewe of Pandora nearly 50 years ago and had pushed away her worries to come out the weekend before Mardi Gras ...

Mardi Gras, which is known as “Fat Tuesday,” falls this year on February 21 and marks the official end of Carnival in the Big Easy. Like so many things in New Orleans, the party never really ends.