{"id":199976,"date":"2026-03-02T02:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/199976\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T02:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:57:09","slug":"photos-city-of-trees-parade-brings-mardi-gras-to-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/199976\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: City of Trees parade brings Mardi Gras to Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fifth annual City of Trees Parade<\/a> brought a Mardi Gras feel to Sacramento on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

More than 50 festive groups joined the parade on its route on Capitol Mall and through Old Sacramento.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have 100 volunteers that help us on the day of the event. We also have 61 different performance groups that are going to bring 1,300 performers to our parade,\u201d parade organizer Wes Samms told The Sacramento Bee before the event<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re preparing costumes. They\u2019re preparing dance routines. They\u2019re preparing music and practicing getting ready to come out. They have art vehicles that are ornately decorated and orchestrated and there is a lot of organizing and work that goes into it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Participants Participants from the Con-nec-tion Dance Project toss beads to the crowd on Capitol Mall during the City of Trees Parade on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. JOS\u00c9 LUIS VILLEGAS jvillegas@sacbee.com \"Sphinx Sphinx riders wave to the crowds of people on Capitol Mall during the City of Trees Parade on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. JOS\u00c9 LUIS VILLEGAS jvillegas@sacbee.com \"Countess Countess Stella and the krewe from Agricultural Aristocracy march on Capitol Mall during the City of Trees Parade on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. JOS\u00c9 LUIS VILLEGAS jvillegas@sacbee.com \"The The C.K. McClatchy High School dance team marches down Capitol Mall during the City of Trees Parade on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. JOS\u00c9 LUIS VILLEGAS jvillegas@sacbee.com \"Lady Lady Sophia Sweet Potato and the krewe from the Agricultural Aristocracy march on Capitol Mall during the City of Trees Parade on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. JOS\u00c9 LUIS VILLEGAS jvillegas@sacbee.com \"Julie Julie Hersch cradles her dog Pliny as they watch performers on Capitol Mall during the City of Trees Parade on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. JOS\u00c9 LUIS VILLEGAS jvillegas@sacbee.com \"The The Roper Romps, a group of costumed pub crawlers inspired by Helen Roper from “Three’s Company,\u201d march on Capitol Mall during the City of Trees Parade on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. JOS\u00c9 LUIS VILLEGAS jvillegas@sacbee.com \"A A giant cat puppet parades down Capitol Mall during the City of Trees Parade in Sacramento on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. HANNAH RUHOFF hruhoff@sacbee.com \"The The Teng Fei Lion Dancers interact with the crowd during the City of Trees Parade in Sacramento on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. HANNAH RUHOFF hruhoff@sacbee.com \"The The pet parade makes its way down Capitol Mall as a part of the City of Trees Parade in Sacramento on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. HANNAH RUHOFF hruhoff@sacbee.com \"The The Grant High Drumline marches down Capitol Mall during the City of Trees Parade in Sacramento on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. HANNAH RUHOFF hruhoff@sacbee.com \"The The NOLACal Second Liners pass out beads during the City of Trees Parade in Sacramento on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. HANNAH RUHOFF hruhoff@sacbee.com \"Ava Ava Beauton, 5, of Sacramento watches bicyclists ride down Capitol Mall during the City of Trees Parade on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. JOS\u00c9 LUIS VILLEGAS jvillegas@sacbee.com \"A A float dubbed the \u201cHMS Sea Cow\u201d rolls down Capitol Mall during the City of Trees Parade in Sacramento on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. HANNAH RUHOFF hruhoff@sacbee.com \"Members Members of the Brazilian Rhythms Workshop make their way down Capitol Mall during the City of Trees Parade in Sacramento on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. HANNAH RUHOFF hruhoff@sacbee.com \"A A Bike Party rider rolls down Capitol Mall during the City of Trees Parade in Sacramento on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. HANNAH RUHOFF hruhoff@sacbee.com \"A A giant cuttlefish by Dust Works parades down Capitol Mall during the City of Trees Parade in Sacramento on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. HANNAH RUHOFF hruhoff@sacbee.com \"A A giant rainbow float drives down Capitol Mall during the City of Trees Parade in Sacramento on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. HANNAH RUHOFF hruhoff@sacbee.com \"A A giant dragonfly is driven down Capitol Mall during the City of Trees Parade in Sacramento on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. HANNAH RUHOFF hruhoff@sacbee.com \"A A train decorated with lights is driven down Capitol Mall during the City of Trees Parade in Sacramento on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. HANNAH RUHOFF hruhoff@sacbee.com
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Jos\u00e9 Luis Villegas<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Award-winning visual journalist Jos\u00e9 Luis Villegas first joined The Bee in 1992. He has shared a general news Pulitzer Prize for Bay Area earthquake coverage, and teamed with Bee colleague Marcos Bret\u00f3n for two books on Latino baseball players.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n


\n \"Profile
\n <\/a><\/p>\n

Hannah Ruhoff<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Hannah Ruhoff is the assistant visuals editor at The Sacramento Bee. Previously, she was a visual journalist at another McClatchy property, the Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss. She is an Ohio University alumna and native of Shaker Heights, Ohio.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fifth annual City of Trees Parade brought a Mardi Gras feel to Sacramento on Saturday night. More…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6781,91245,29978,22854,121,123,122,92986],"class_list":{"0":"post-199976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-capitol-mall","9":"tag-city-of-trees-parade","10":"tag-mardi-gras","11":"tag-old-sacramento","12":"tag-sacramento","13":"tag-sacramento-headlines","14":"tag-sacramento-news","15":"tag-sacramento-parade"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}