From Mystic Riders to Puppy Gras: A guide to Baldwin and Mobile County’s Mardi Gras parades

By MELANIE LECROY
Lifestyle Editor
melanie@gulfcoastmedia.com
Posted 1/25/24

Laissez les bons temps rouler (translation: Let the good times roll)!

This weekend kicks off Mardi Gras in Baldwin County with the Elberta Mardi Gras parade, but the Baldwin County season kicks …

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From Mystic Riders to Puppy Gras: A guide to Baldwin and Mobile County’s Mardi Gras parades

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Laissez les bons temps rouler (translation: Let the good times roll)!

This weekend kicks off Mardi Gras in Baldwin County with the Elberta Mardi Gras parade, but the Baldwin County season kicks into high gear Friday, Feb. 2.

Grab your reusable shopping bags, make some “Throw Me Something Mister” signs and let the good times roll. Here are the parades you can catch around Baldwin and Mobile counties.


Friday, Jan. 26
6:30 p.m. – Conde Cavaliers, Mobile

Saturday, Jan. 27
2 p.m. Elberta Mardi Gras Parade, Elberta - Canceled due to weather
2 p.m. - Bayport Parading Society, Mystic DJ Riders, Mobile

2 p.m. – Order of the Rolling River, Dauphin Island Parkway
6:30 p.m. – Pharaohs, Conde Explorers, Mobile

Sunday, Jan. 28
6:30 p.m. – Massacre Island Secret Society, Dauphin Island

Thursday, Feb. 1

6:30 p.m. – Order of Polka Dots, Mobile

Friday, Feb. 2
6:30 p.m. – Order of Inca, Mobile
6:45 p.m. – Apollo’s Mystic Ladies, Daphne

Saturday, Feb. 3

1 p.m. – OWA Puppy Gras Pet Parade, Foley
1 p.m. – Mobile Mystics, Mobile Mystical Revelers, Mobile Mystical Friends, Mobile
3 p.m. – The Mystic Mutts of Revelry, Fairhope
6:30 p.m. – Knights of Ecor Rouge, Fairhope

6:30 p.m. – Maids of Mirth, Order of Butterfly Maidens, Krewe of Marry Mates, Mobile

Sunday, Feb. 4
6:30 p.m. – Neptune’s Daughter, Order of Isis, Mobile

Monday, Feb. 5
6:30 p.m. – Order of Venus, Miracle on the Bay, Order of Many Faces, Mobile

Tuesday, Feb. 6

6:30 p.m. – Order of LaShe’s; Order of Olympia, Mobile

Thursday, Feb. 8
6:30 – Mystic Stripers Society, Mobile

Friday, Feb. 9
6:30 p.m. – Crewe of Columbus, Krewe de Second Line, Mobile

6:45 p.m. – Maids of Jubilee, Fairhope

Saturday, Feb. 10
11 a.m. – Krewe de Kaoz, Foley
Noon – Floral Parade, Knights of Mobile, Mobile Mystical Ladies, Order of Angels, Joy of Life, Mobile
Noon – Krewe of Goats, Prichard Carnival Association, Prichard

Noon – Krewe of Sparta, Saraland
2 p.m. – Krewe of Mullet Mates, Mullet Point, Fairhope
2 p.m. – Joe “Canine” Fundraiser and dog parade, The Waterfront, Daphne

5:45 p.m. – Mystics of Time, Mobile
6 p.m. – Mystics of Pleasure, Orange Beach
6:45 p.m. – The Shadow Barons, Daphne

Sunday, Feb. 11 (Joe Cain Day)
1 p.m. – OWA Mardi Gras parade, Foley
1 p.m. – Fort Morgan Parading Society, Fort Morgan

2 p.m. – King Elexis I Motorcade, Mobile

2:29 p.m. – Loyal Order of the Fire Truck, Daphne
2:30 p.m. – Joe Cain Procession, Mobile
5 p.m. – Le Krewe de Bienville, Mobile

Monday, Feb. 12 (Lundi Gras)
Noon – King Felix III, Floral Parade, Mobile

3 p.m. – MLK Business and Civic, MLK Monday Mystics, Northside Merchants, Mobile
4 p.m. – Moonpies on Main at The Wharf, Orange Beach
6:45 p.m. – Order of Mystic Magnolias, Fairhope
7 p.m. – Infant Mystics, Order of Doves, Mobile

Tuesday, Feb. 13 (Fat Tuesday)

10 a.m. – Gulf Shores Parade, Gulf Shores
10 a.m. – Order of Athena, Mobile
12:30 p.m. – Knights of Revelry, King Felix III, Comic Cowboys, Mobile
2 p.m. – Orange Beach Parade, Orange Beach
2 p.m. – MAMGA Mammoth Parade, Mobile
6 p.m. – Order of Myths, Mobile