Mardi Gras 2021

Key Takeaways

• Mardi Gras 2021 adapted to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions by canceling traditional parades, street drinking, bead throwing, and crowded street celebrations throughout New Orleans.
• New Orleans residents created Mardi Gras float houses throughout city, transforming entire homes into elaborate parade floats to maintain celebration spirit during pandemic restrictions.
• Mayor vowed Mardi Gras 2021 would be different, New Orleanians responded creatively by decorating houses as floats, maintaining tradition despite traditional parade cancellations citywide.

To say that Mardi Gras has and will be different this year is definitely an understatement. With Covid-19 taking the world by storm last year, it has left many of us the challenge of finding new ways to celebrate the things we hold dear. Mardi Gras, as you know, is one of New Orleans’ most famed traditions and week-long events that people from all of the country flock to be a part of. So we can’t have the parades, the bread throwing, the intense rivalry for who will catch a shoe during the Muses parade, or the blatant street drinking, but even that hasn’t been enough to deter New Orleanians. This year, the mayor vowed that Mardi Gras would be different, and the people of NOLA did not disappoint! In keeping with the spirit of Mardi Gras, several float houses have been popping up all over New Orleans. After all, who needs a parade float, when you can turn your whole house into a float!

See map or visit link below for where you can still enjoy the spirit of Mardi Gras, just in a “different” way!

Trying to find those fabulous Mardi Gras float houses? We’ve got a map for you!