St Louis Mardi Gras 2024

Live Stream, Grand Parade, TV Coverage, Dates, Start Time

St Louis isn't a location you would immediately associate with Mardi Gras, but this mid-western city does indeed embrace the annual tradition with a series of events leading up to the Grand Parade, which usually takes place on the Sunday immediately preceding Fat Tuesday.

The St Louis mardi gras is one of the more recent large scale celebrations of the occasion in the United States, having only started in earnest in the 1980s, but it has grown very impressively since then to the current event which is attended by an estimated quarter of a million people, lining the city's streets to watch the Grand parade, although inclement weather has been known to reduce this number drastically, the February climate can still be somewhat hostile in this part of the country!

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Parade Schedule

Saturday 3rd and Sunday 14h - Taste of Soulard from 11am

Sunday 4th February - Purina Pet Parade at 1pm on 12th and Allen

Friday 9th February: Mayors Mardi Gras Ball at The Midway at Saint Louis Union Station from 7pm

Saturday 10th February - Bud Light Grand Parade
The Grand Parade is a free event and gets underway at 11am from Busch Stadium, passes through Downtown South and Soulard and ends at the Anheuser-Busch Brewery.

Full schedule of events can be found here.

TV & Live Streaming

Live coverage of the Grand Parade is left to the local TV and radio networks, there has yet to be any interest shown in national coverage. Most local TV channels do offer a live stream these days though so any coverage is also likely to be available online, we will be keeping our eyes peeled and post any links we find right here.

The official Facebook page is probably a good place to start.

In the meantime you might like to check out some of the local webcam views, there are several live streaming cameras positioned in and around St Louis, often a great way to check out what's happening in an area when a big event like this is taking place:

St Louis webcams

You can see our full range of live coverage of mardi gras and carnival events around the world here:

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Hotels and Accommodation

If you're looking to do Mardi Gras on a budget then St Louis is a pretty good choice, you won't be stung by the inflated hotel costs you might find in New Orleans or other more famous Fat Tuesday destinations, and you're always pretty much guaranteed a warm welcome in this famously friendly town.

You can check out availability and make reservations for local hotels here.

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