Tower Grove Pride 2026 🏳️‍🌈

🗓 Saturday, September 26th & Sunday, September 27th
🕚 Festival begins at 11:00 AM each day
📍 Tower Grove Park • St. Louis, Missouri
Along Main Drive, from Center Cross Drive to Grand Boulevard

Celebrate Pride in the park at Tower Grove Pride 2026, a community-powered, independent Pride festival centered on St. Louis’ LGBTQ+ community!

Tower Grove Pride brings St. Louisans together in solidarity and celebration while promoting visibility, awareness, social justice, local creativity, and community. The festival welcomes tens of thousands of LGBTQ+ people, allies, families, local businesses, artists, performers, and community organizations for two days in beautiful Tower Grove Park.

🏳️‍🌈 What to Expect

🎤 Three Stages of Entertainment
Enjoy a diverse lineup of St. Louis talent throughout both days of the festival. Three stages will feature live music across multiple genres, dance, drag, and DJ dance parties.

🛍️ Festival Marketplace
Take some time to explore the huge marketplace stretching along Main Drive. Tower Grove Pride showcases local small businesses, artists, makers, crafters, community organizations, and nonprofits. In 2024 alone, the festival featured more than 300 vendor booths!

🎉 Saturday — Ball in the Park
Saturday brings The Ball in the Park, adding even more performance, celebration, and queer culture to the weekend.

🌈 People’s Joy Parade

🗓 Sunday, September 27th
🕐 1:00 PM

Don’t miss the annual People’s Joy Parade!

The walking and biking parade travels through the festival grounds along Main Drive. Festivalgoers can join the parade themselves or find a spot anywhere along Main Drive to cheer everyone on.

🐾 Bring Your Four-Legged Pride Crew!

Tower Grove Pride welcomes pets of all kinds. Dogs, cats, birds, lizards—and even bunnies in backpacks—have joined the Pride celebration in the park.

🚗 Parking

General parking is FREE on streets throughout Tower Grove Park west of Center Cross Drive.

Reserved parking will also be available in a designated loop around the festival grounds for $10 per day, with paid parking opening at 10:30 AM each day.

Accessible parking is available in the designated parking area at no charge with a valid placard displayed.

About Tower Grove Pride

Community is what Tower Grove Pride is all about.

Tower Grove Pride is an independent, community-powered LGBTQ+ Pride festival with a broader mission of supporting and promoting social justice for disadvantaged, oppressed, and undervalued communities.

The festival is powered by the people who participate in it—from volunteers and entertainers to artists, local businesses, nonprofits, sponsors, and festivalgoers. It’s a weekend for St. Louis to come together, celebrate LGBTQ+ life and culture, increase visibility, support local organizations and creators, and have a whole lot of fun while doing it.

🏳️‍🌈 Come celebrate community, creativity, visibility, and Pride in Tower Grove Park!