City of Trees Parade and Mardi Gras Festival 2026!

Sat, February 28, 2026 — 3:00 PM

Tickets

Aristocrat VIP Parade Rider (VERY LIMITED)

$232.57
(incl. 10.57 fee)

My liege. The best of the best awaits you as an Aristocrat VIP Parade Riders! Free drinks in your souvenir chalice, premium beads to keep, and VIP Access to board your float right inside the parade grounds! This ticket is a huge support to our all-volunteer nonprofit, and we thank you even for considering it!

As an Aristocrat VIP, you're guaranteed to ride our very best art cars throwing beads to the adoring public! You'll get to see virtually all of the parade before you board our finest, final floats right inside the festival grounds! Just wait by our Mardi Gras VIP Bus Stop to catch your ride into Old Sacramento. Then your float will return you right back to the festival grounds for our electric dance party.

Aristocrat VIPs receive:

Admission to our Mardi Gras Festival on Capitol Mall with "in-and-out" privileges
Unlimited drinks in your souvenir chalice
Premium beads to keep or give away
Float-boarding access INSIDE the festival grounds
Free beads to throw to the adoring public
Return trip to the festival grounds in time for our DANCE PARTY

**DISCLAIMER** By riding and participating in this event, you agree to allow any media representatives attending the City of Trees Parade to use photographs, video footage, audio recordings and interviews of or with you during the event. You understand that the material will be used on-air and on-line by the media outlets covering the parade. These outlets will own the copyright to any and all recordings and photographs. You understand that your likeness may be used on the websites of these media outlets, in future printed materials created by these outlets or in other promotional materials related to that company’s mission. You waive any financial compensation or other consideration for any use of my likeness or audio recordings.

PARADE RIDER - Throw Beads in the Parade!

$104.01
(incl. 5.01 fee)

Sales end on Feb 27, 2026 11:00 PM

Parade Riders get to throw beads from our marvelous parade floats! You get full access to the festival and then board a float at our nearby staging area mid-parade by 6PM! You'll get to see most of the parade before you go to our staging area and jump on a float, ride into Old Sacramento, and have the unique experience of throwing beads in a real Mardi Gras parade. We provide the beads, you just provide yourself.

As a Parade Rider you'll receive:

Admission to our Mardi Gras Festival on Capitol Mall with "in-and-out" privileges
A place on one of our fabulous vehicles riding through Old Sacramento
Free beads to throw to the adoring public
Vintage-style glass beads to keep forever <3
Return trip to the festival grounds in time for our DANCE PARTY

FREE Kids Under 16 RSVP (RSVP Required for free entry!)

FREE

Kids UNDER AGE 16 enter the festival grounds FREE with your RSVP. We just do this so we know how many people are coming and going. Have fun and enjoy the wonder of Mardi Gras!

Just show your QR code to our volunteers to get in via the festival grounds entrance at 7th and Capitol Mall.

Schedule of events!

3PM-5PM Live performances at the festival grounds
5PM-6:30PM THE CITY OF TREES PARADE ROLLS
6:30PM Special live performance to be announced!
7:00PM Parade floats return and the dance party starts!

Want to get decked out and still save some scratch?? Check out our swag packages and get your tickets, t-shirts, and specialty beads at a discount when you arrive at the festival.

Thanks for supporting Sacramento Mardi Gras!

FREE Festival RSVP Before Dec 15th (One Per Customer!)

FREE

Sold Out

Sales end on Dec 15, 2025 1:00 AM

You are the earliest of birds! Here's your free RSVP for the festival. Remember, KIDS UNDER AGE 16 ENTER FREE with their RSVP and don't need one of our limited, free tickets :D So please save these tickets for the other early birdie adults.

The SWAG Parade Package ($60 value!)

$51.74
(incl. 2.74 fee)

The best part of a Mardi Gras parade is... THE BEADS! With this Beads and T-Shirt bundle, you'll get a jump on the crowd with a complete set of beads AND one of our exciting tshirts designed by our local artist. One GA ticket is included giving you access to our pre-parade entertainment at 3PM, the parade at 5PM, and the dance party at 7PM!

Youll get:

One GA Parade and Dance Party Ticket
ONE t-shirt designed by a local Sacramento artist (Sizes S-XL available on site first come first served!)
ONE Fancy Bead Bundle, with enough to share! You'll get unique, recycled beads from New Orleans, such as:
- Standard throw beads
- Fat and or Disco-Ball beads
- Glass beads and/or
- Unique crazy beads

You'll be able to pick up your beads and shirts from the Bar and Souvenir stand in the center of the festival.

EARLY BIRD Admission + Dance Party

$10.97
(incl. 0.97 fee)

Sales end on Feb 20, 2026 11:55 PM

Hey you early birds! Thanks for buying your tickets in advance. This helps our nonprofit plan for the event size and also to finance it (wow!). Remember, kids under age 16 enter free when you RSVP them using the FREE kids ticket! Early bird sales end at midnight on Feb 26th, so get yours now!

Just show your QR code to our volunteers to get in via the festival grounds entrance at 7th and Capitol Mall.

Schedule of events!

Want to get decked out and still save some scratch?? Check out our swag packages and get your tickets, t-shirts, and specialty beads at a discount when you arrive at the festival.

Thanks for supporting Sacramento Mardi Gras!

Dance Party TICKET -- Entry ONLY AFTER 7PM

$10.97
(incl. 0.97 fee)

Want to come just for the legendary City of Trees Parade Dance Party?? Now you can with this exclusive ticket. Entry happens after 7PM.

You'll enjoy:

Incredible light-up vehicles you can climb aboard!
DJ's spinning the fattest beats
Food, drinks, seating, and bathrooms within our festival grounds

Please enter through the festival entrance at 7th and Capitol Mall and get ready to partyyyyyy!

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Location

700 Capitol Mall

700 Capitol Mall
Sacramento, California, 95814

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About this event

Welcome to the FIFTH annual City of Trees Parade & Mardi Gras Festival!! Our 100% nonprofit Mardi Gras event will take place on Saturday, February 28th, 2026. The City of Trees Parade is a dazzling showcase of Sacramento’s rich diversity and culture! Last year’s event included more than 1,300 performers from 55 different groups, and this year’s event will be even bigger!! Follow us @cityoftreesparade on FB and IG to keep up with all the latest details or visit our website www.cityoftreesparade.org

Join in on the all-afternoon festival beginning at 3pm, right on Capitol Mall. Kids enter free with RSVP! There will be live performances, interactive exhibits, food trucks, local vendors, and a beverage garden to wet your whistle and help us raise funds for this non-profit event. Bring your lawn chair or blanket and you’ll be able to watch our fantastic parade as it rolls past the festival toward tower bridge, culminating in Sacramento’s only evening-time parade, featuring light-up art cars from Burning Man! From 7 to 9 PM you'll be able to see all of these light up art cars in all their glory, parked right inside the festival grounds.

Parade Riders can see the parade and then catch a ride on a fabulous art car into Old Sacramento to throw beads to the public! Our ticketed Parade Riders will board floats in the staging area and then ride down Capitol Mall in style throwing 100% recycled Mardi Gras beads that we'll provide for you. THEN the entire, light-up parade returns to the festival grounds for our signature City of Trees Parade electric dance party until 9PM. Our Aristocrat VIPs get the absolute best experience, because they can board our very best floats right inside the festival grounds!

Last Year's Lineup Included...

Sac Quad Squad • Peter J. Shields Elementary School Unicycle Club • City of Trees Pet Parade • The A.J. Apartment Homes • Sacramento State Marching Band • Sacramento Juneteenth • Sacramento Lowrider Commission • Noon the Artist • C.I.E Confidence Is Everything • Girl Scout Troop 374 • COA Elite Dance • Sacramento Youth Band's Tower Bridge Trad • Ballet Folklorico Nube de Oro • Zumba w/Gloria & friends

con·nec·tion DANCE | PROJECT • The Merry Antoinettes • BTU Arts dba Bigger Than Us Arts • NOLACAL Second Liners • Sac Town Mardi Gras • Sacramento Roper Romp • Magical Mama Cat • McClatchy Dance Team • Kennedy High Cheer & Dance Team • CKM Lionettes • Solo Riderz on the behalf of our cuzn Frank Munoz

Teng Fei Sacramento Lion Dance • Kuroheim Foam Fighting • Balance Dance Project • Tina B and The Sacramento Soul Line Dancers • UC Davis Marching Band • California Auto Museum • Agricultural Aristocracy • Plan Bee • Kinetic Sculpture Race • Bay Area Bounty Hunters Costume Group

Deco Fish Art Car • Sacramento Ghostbusters • Zombie Club • Parade Magic • Uncle's Art • Pirate Ship Fun • California Mermaid Convention • Torch the Dragon • Simon the Turtle Car • Bike Party Sacramento • J Beezy Stage Truck featuring LabRats

More Details and our Agenda Still to Come!

Together we will illuminate Sacramento with floats, art cars, marching bands, poi spinners, brass bands, dancers, beads, and so much more! Be sure to follow us @cityoftreesparade on Facebook and Instagram for all the news.

So grab all your purple, green, and gold and come join us for our third annual outpouring of Sacramento love through the format of Mardi Gras!

We can’t wait to see you AGAIN, Sacramento!