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Soulard Mardi Gras
St. Louis, MO · Holiday
- When
- February 6, 2027
- Where
- Soulard Market · St. Louis · MO
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Soulard's Bud Light Grand Parade is the marquee day of a five-week Mardi Gras season that fills the historic Soulard neighborhood with costumes, floats, and music. It draws hundreds of thousands each year and is billed as one of the largest Mardi Gras celebrations in the country outside New Orleans. The 2027 parade marks the season's 48th year.
The history within reach
- Soulard Mardi Grassame spot
Soulard's Bud Light Grand Parade is the marquee day of a five-week Mardi Gras season that fills the historic Soulard neighborhood with costumes, floats, and music.
- Soulard Market0.6 mi
Land given to the city for a public market by a French surveyor's widow on condition it stay one forever, and it has, the oldest continuously operating public market west of the Mississippi.
- Anheuser-Busch1.0 mi
Adolphus Busch pasteurised his lager and shipped it in refrigerated rail cars, which turned a local St.
- Checkerboard Square1.1 mi
William Danforth built a feed company and took his trademark from a family he had seen where the mother dressed every child in the same red and white checked cloth so she could find them in a crowd.
The Lemps brewed the first lager in St.