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Nov 16, 2024
This park highlights a part of U.S. History we do not learn about in school. That a bunch of outnumbered, rag-tag, poorly provisioned Americans (citizens, freed slaves, Choctaw) defeated the British…Full review by funwithspinsters
Aug 31, 2024
We stopped at the Chalmette National Cemetery first. ~16,000 grave sites. Many of unknown soldiers. This site has one long straight road that’s canopied by trees with graves on either side. The house…Full review by Blue_eyed_adventures
May 30, 2024
Very nice, but small, explanation of the Battle of New Orleans. Clean grounds with easy to understand displays. Does solemn honor to the events that occurred here.Full review by Bruce B
I recall Hurricane Katrina pretty much flooded the park--does anyone have any before and after information? I visited many years ago.
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As everyone else replied, the park is up and running. It has a wonderful free museum and the locals love to walk, run, or bike around the battlefield. It has restrooms and I was even …
As everyone else replied, the park is up and running. It has a wonderful free museum and the locals love to walk, run, or bike around the battlefield. It has restrooms and I was even able to go up into the monument for the very first time this past Battle of New Orleans Celebration (always second weekend of January). The monument was 102 steps up and boy did my legs suffer for it the rest of the week! I was so surprised because I walk 5 miles all the time! If you visit the battlefield by car, be sure to eat at Rocky and Carlos, they have great Shrimp Po Boys and Old Arabi Grocers has the best Roast Beef Po Boy and Muffelatta. But yes, you are right, St Bernard took a huge hit after Katrina and many areas got over 9 ft of water. The good news is that Old Arabi just opened a lovely science center in a renovated Old School Bldg, it even has a planetarium! It's on Friscoville Drive.
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