Algiers Point & the Canal Street Ferry
Canal St Ferry Terminal, New Orleans, LA 70130
The Canal Street Ferry is the best free experience in New Orleans — a 15-minute ride across the Mississippi River to Algiers Point that provides the only view of the French Quarter skyline from the water, and it costs absolutely nothing.
Audubon Park
6500 Magazine St, Audubon, New Orleans, 70118, United States
Audubon Park is Uptown's green jewel — 350 acres of live oaks, lagoons, and open space designed by the Olmsted Brothers firm (sons of Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed Central Park) on land that was once the Foucher and Boré sugar plantations.
City Park
1 Palm Dr, City Park, New Orleans, 70124, United States
City Park is 1,300 acres of live oak trees, lagoons, gardens, and museums that makes it 50% larger than Central Park — a fact that surprises everyone who associates New Orleans exclusively with the French Quarter.
Congo Square
835 N Rampart St, New Orleans, LA 70116
Congo Square is the most important piece of ground in the history of American music — the open space in what is now Louis Armstrong Park where enslaved Africans were permitted to gather on Sunday afternoons to drum, dance, sing, and trade, preserving the West African musical traditions that would eventually become jazz, blues, funk, and virtually every form of popular music that America has produced.
Crescent Park
New Orleans, United States
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Garden District
St Charles Ave at Washington Ave, New Orleans, LA 70130
The Garden District is where the Americans built their mansions after the Louisiana Purchase — a deliberate statement of wealth and taste aimed at the Creole establishment in the French Quarter who considered the English-speaking newcomers to be uncultured barbarians.
Jackson Square
700 Decatur St, New Orleans, LA 70116
Jackson Square is the beating heart of the French Quarter — a formal garden square framed by the triple spires of St.
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