Several area parades will take place leading up to Fat Tuesday.

The parade will leave from the Sager-Brown center and travel down Main Street to MLK where it will end at Bollard Street.

Shelton and Susan Barard will serve as this year’s king and queen while Sandra Payton will serve as grand marshal.

Later Saturday, the Chitimacha Tribe will host its parade on the reservation beginning at 1 p.m.

And at noon the Cypremort Point parade will roll, however, revelers going to watch the parade are reminded to arrive by 11 a.m.

Franklin’s All Krewe Parade will get under way at 1 p.m. on Tuesday.

The list of those taking part with review stands along the route include the krewes of Agmoral, Guhmboh, Shona, Sucrose and Teche.

Line up at Franklin Senior High begins at 11 a.m. The parade will depart from the school and travel down Main Street to Willow and from there to Third Street where it will disband.

On the eastern end of the parish, the Krewe of Adonis will set the pace tonight at 7 p.m. in Morgan City.

Floats will leave the Morgan City Municipal Auditorium and continue to Victor II Boulevard, Brashear Avenue, Ninth Street, Marguerite Street, Sixth Street, Onstead Street and Federal Avenue.

The Krewe of Dionysus (formerly Berwick-Bayou Vista Mardi Gras Association) will hold its parade Saturday at 2 p.m. following a new route in Berwick.

The parade will line up on Thorguson, head to La. 182 turn left onto Gilmore Street and take the next right onto Mount Street to Robicheaux, John, Gilmore, Fairview Drive, Cloverdale, Renwick, Fairview, Pattie Drive, and ending at Berwick High School.

Next will be the women’s Krewe of Galatea with a Sunday parade at 2 p.m.

The procession will organize on Second Street in Morgan City under the U.S. 90 bridge and proceed to Onstead Street, Sixth Street, Marguerite Street, Ninth Street, Brashear Avenue and Victor II Boulevard, ending at the auditorium.

Monday will see the Krewe of Hannibal and the Krewe of Amani co-hosting a 2 p.m. in Patterson.

Krewe members will assemble its participants at the park on Red Cypress Road and travel to Martin Luther King Avenue and follow it to Main Street where it will continue until it reaches its disbanding point at the Place Norman Shopping Center.

The Krewe of Hephaestus will host the last local parade of the Carnival season on Fat Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Morgan City.

Parade members will organize at the corner of Sixth and Sycamore streets and proceed down Sixth Street to Marguerite Street, Ninth Street, Brashear Avenue and Victor II Boulevard, ending at the auditorium.