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Nevada City Mardi Gras
Nevada City, CA · Holiday
- When
- February 7, 2027
- Where
- Downtown Nevada City · Nevada City · CA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
A costumed parade and street fair through Nevada City's Gold Rush era downtown, organized by the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce. Local press has called it one of the larger Mardi Gras celebrations on the West Coast outside New Orleans.
The history within reach
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A small-town parade held every September since 1967, billed by organisers as the oldest and largest Constitution Day observance in the western United States.
- Nevada City Victorian Christmassame spot
Broad Street closes to cars on two December Wednesday evenings and three Sunday afternoons for this walkable holiday market, a tradition the Nevada City Chamber has run since 1978.
- Nevada City Mardi Grassame spot
A costumed parade and street fair through Nevada City's Gold Rush era downtown, organized by the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce.
A nationally recognized draft horse driving and pulling competition held alongside a harvest fair at the Nevada County Fairgrounds.
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The company town of the largest hydraulic mine in California, where water cannon washed a mountain into a canyon until the 1884 Sawyer decision, the country's first major environmental ruling, shut the industry down.