King Mango Strut Parade

New Orleans has Mardi Gras. Miami has the King Mango Strut. While incomparable in size and scale, this comical and locally revered parade returns on Sunday, January 4 to celebrate over 40 years of "putting the NUT in Coconut Grove" through satirical floats and eyebrow-raising subject matter. Onlookers (around 10,000 of them each year) are encouraged to get into it by dressing up and embracing the parade's ethos to “celebrate and skewer what’s weird and wonderful about Miami and the year that was.” If you actually want to be in the parade, that's a possibility, too.

Amateur comedians and performers can apply here. Participants are expected to satirize the weird and wonderful aspects of Miami with a bon vivant attitude using the 2026 theme “This is Fine,” based on the popular meme. The strut route begins at the corner of Commodore Plaza and Main Highway. It turns left onto Main Highway and then turns left onto Grand Avenue at CocoWalk and turns left again at Commodore Plaza.