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.
Mid-City
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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