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One of the most beautiful of city parks in America, Audubon Park is a 300 acre tract with lagoons, bike paths, outdoor swimming pool (open Summer), oak trees (including the “Tree of Life”), Zoo, and Golf Course. But it wasn’t always that way. It was once a swampy plantation,
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Good point of contact before reaching downtown New Orleans, but very difficult landing in low and medium waters. If you need a point of contact (other than the Moonwalk/Jackson Square) to meet someone in New Orleans, this would be the best place at a very recognizable and easy- to-get-to
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Possible low/med picnicking/camping up to 10NO. An unusual sandbar forms behind the Oak Street Water Intake, and continues downstream around the outside edge of Carrolton Bend, creating the scene for good picnicking and possible camping up top 8NO, and dry spots in the willow trees behind up to
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Last remote camping/picnicking above New Orleans, but only in low/med water levels. As you round Avondale Bend in low or medium water levels, you will notice several small skinny dunes East Bank -- hung along the inside of the bend at Twelve Mile Point. These narrow shelves are
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This Chem Corridor Greenspace is the thinnest yet encountered on the Lower Mississippi, but provides all of the buffer necessary to achieve the “river illusion,” that peaceful sensation that only a paddler can enjoy. Even though this Greenspace is a thin slice of batture woods only a 100 feet wide
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As you paddle into Avondale Bend the busy industrial Kenner reach fades away and some quietness returns along with long lines of trees on both sides of the river, giving the illusion of paddling through a wild wooded place. We call this the “river illusion.” The “river illusion” is found
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Best access to the City of Kenner via batture around Boardwalk. Possible picnicking/camping up to 10NO. The best safe place to make a landing and access the City of Kenner is in the wide batture flats surrounding the river boardwalk which extends over the levee from downtown on the
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Good low/med water picnicking/camping up to 12NO with good protection from S wind and W wind or storms. An unusual collection of sand dunes and one lengthy sandbar can be found at low and medium waters around the outside edge of Twenty-Six Mile Point from a low bar
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Possible low water picnicking/camping, but better location across river at Dufresne. The three-mile bend of the river around Good Hope, Hahnville, 26-Six Mile Point, and Dufresne offers a moment of breathing room from the bankside chaos at Norco/Hahnville. The industry falls back, and the lines of big trees
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This is your last safe haven before the very busy gauntlet of petrochem giants found downstream for the next 3 miles. Stay on land at this location if conditions are bad, such as oncoming storms, high winds, or nightfall. This ragged ramp is the only paved public boat ramp within
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Great picnicking and sight-seeing at south end (access from boat ramp). Visitor’s Center. Possible camping, but must gain USACE permission first. Bonnet Carre Spillway makes a great rest stop and site visit at an important point of interest for paddlers (Visitor’s Center atop Spillway Gates on South side)
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Beautiful low/med water camping, with storm protection from all directions, but goes under around 12NO. Newly Discovered Island! Perfect for paddlers seeking refuge, but very mosquito prone in its season, and only good in low and medium water levels. Completely underwater around 12NO. Bonnet Carre Island is the very