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Metairie, Louisiana

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  • Metairie, Louisiana

    Watch the Sunset on the Southern Banks of Lake Pontchartrain

    Just a fifteen minutes from the hustle and bustle of New Orleans, one can find possibly the best spot in all of the New Orleans Metro Area, "The Levee", as locals call it. At the listed location, there is a shell beach where you can enter on your SUP, Kayak, or Canoe. This location is also a popu...
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  • New Orleans, Louisiana

    Run The Audubon Park Trail in New Orleans

    4.0
    2 mi / 0 ft gain
    Audubon Park offers an oasis in the middle of the hustle and bustle of New Orleans. The park offers a 1.8 mile paved loop for running, biking, or taking the dog for a walk. The loop surrounds the Audubon golf course in the center of uptown New Orleans. Audubon Park is dotted with beautiful ponds,...
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  • New Orleans, Louisiana

    Photograph the Tree of Life In Audubon Park

    5.0
    The Tree of Life as the Locals call it, is an iconic staple of the Uptown New Orleans area. Families have been climbing, swinging and getting married under this beautiful tree's canopy for years. The tree is estimated to be nearly 500 years old and the tree limbs even touch the ground as Spanish ...
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  • New Orleans, Louisiana

    Run the Street Car Line in Uptown New Orleans

    4.0
    4 mi / 0 ft gain
    The historic street car line that runs from uptown New Orleans to Downtown New Orleans is the perfect place to run and experience the city if you are visiting. 22 miles of track allow you to choose from many different sections to run. The best section in my opinion is the section from the interse...
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  • Lafitte, Louisiana

    Fish For Redfish In Lafitte, LA

    Deep in the marsh lands of southern Louisiana lies the small fishing community of Lafitte, Louisiana. In Bayou Rigolettes just south of Lafitte, you can fish one of the easiest as well as hardest fish to reel in. Redfish are know to be very abundant in both shallow and deep waters in Louisiana. T...
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  • Mandeville, Louisiana

    Sunset Stroll on the Mandeville Lakefront

    4.5
    3 mi
    Altogether this is about a 1.5 mile walk from one end to the other, 3 miles there and back. It's often full of interesting people. Typically around sunset in the warmer months, you can find a man somewhere along the Lakefront playing his violin. The music is beautiful. I have no idea who he is bu...
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  • Lacombe, Louisiana

    Hike the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge Trail

    5.0
    1 mi / 0 ft gain
    The trail on the boardwalk is about a mile but you also have the option to walk the full hike which is 6.8 miles. It almost completely flat the whole time and its one of my favorite places to go near New Orleans. There's also free guided walks available as well with groups so you can learn more a...
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  • Covington, Louisiana

    Ride along the Tammany Trace

    4.0
    28 mi
    The Trace is an old railroad line turned into a biking, hiking, horse riding, trail. Most of the corridor is 200-feet wide, traversing lush woods that form a canopy overhead. There are 31 bridges in peppered throughout the Trace, and many of them are magnificent timber bridges, once railroad tres...
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  • Vacherie, Louisiana

    Explore the Oak Alley Plantation

    4.0
    Located an hour and twenty minutes west of New Orleans, I had originally planned to make a quick pit stop at this Plantation while passing through just to snap a photo of the oaks, before I knew it I had spent 6 hours wandering its properties and learning all about the incredible past of this hom...
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