City Park & NOMA
The Mid-City park that is larger than Central Park, with an art museum at its entrance that punches above its profile.
1,300 acres of live oaks, lagoons, and golf courses, originally an 1854 plantation site. Less famous than Audubon and often less crowded, with a different character — wider open space, fewer joggers, more locals walking dogs.
The New Orleans Museum of Art at the entrance has a strong collection (pre-Columbian, French painting, photography, contemporary) and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden — five acres, 90+ works, free and open to the public — is one of the best in the South. A full afternoon between the museum and the gardens is the play.
Café du Monde has a lakeside park outpost if you missed the original. Storyland and the Carousel Gardens are for kids under ten. Take the Canal streetcar to the City Park / Museum stop; the line ends at the museum entrance.
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