Big Changes for St. Louis Cardinals Caravan This Winter

If you look forward to the St. Louis Cardinals Caravan every winter, you would be wise to check the just-announced locations as there are some big changes and omissions compared to previous years.

This was the share by the St. Louis Cardinals on their social media places today.

The 2026 version of the St. Louis Cardinals Caravan will begin Friday, January 16 with stops in Champaign, Jefferson City, Peoria, Illinois and Springfield, Missouri. Saturday, January 17th’s itinerary will include stops in Bloomington, Joplin, Rolla and Springfield, Illinois. The third caravan will be Sunday, January 18 starting in Centralia, Illinois, Evansville and Memphis. The final Cardinals caravan is set to hit the road Monday, January 19 with appearances in Cape Girardeau, Dyersburg, Jonesboro and Paducah. The caravan schedule now does not includes stops in Hannibal and Festus, Missouri or Decatur or Mattoon, Illinois which have been caravan stops for years.

I reached out to a rep from the St. Louis Cardinals and he clarified why some of the stops from previous years have been removed from this year’s caravan. “Each year the Cardinals marketing team builds our Caravan schedule taking into account a wide variety of factors including historic visits (where we’ve been in the past, where we need to visit that we haven’t in a few years, etc.), player availability and travel and timing within the narrow window of the MLK holiday weekend. Historically, we have rotated cities or regions in and out of the schedule based on those factors.”

The schedule for the St. Louis Cardinals Winter Warmup has also been set for the weekend of January 17 and 18 for Busch Stadium and Ballpark Village.

There are no details that have been released so far as to which players will be a part of the St. Louis Cardinals Caravan or the Winter Warmup. The roster for both should be shared over the next few weeks.