Updating Map... About Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve
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The park is beautiful, reflecting a great perspective of the area wildlife and vegetation. we actually ran into an alligator at the end of the trail
How have we missed this on previous trips! There are beautiful trails, lots of wildlife including frogs, alligators, birds, raccoons, dragonflies , and snakes. Unique vegetation and trees--beautiful and peaceful! Very nice visitor center with very knowledgable and helpful rangers. We highly recommend visiting !
Every trip to New Orleans I make sure to visit the Jean Lafitte National Park to walk the board walk out through the swamp. This is simply the most awe inspiring site that one should not miss! Well maintained board walk just above the surface...More
We so enjoyed our time on the swamp boardwalk. Though there were lots of other people about, it turned out to be a peaceful exploration of the swamp. We saw lots of snakes, frogs, and 4 alligators. I highly recommend making time for this free...More
Worth stopping in and reading the info. The ranger talk takes longer. Nice way to learn how the French quarter started.
We went to the French Quarter Visitor Center and enjoyed the displays with history of the area and then listened to the Ranger talk in the courtyard on 5/19/2018. Excellent talk by the Ranger. He gave so much history of the entire area. Very well...More
We were here in the winter and had a nice pleasant walk through the Barataria Preserve. It was a bit cold for wildlife when we were here, but it was still a beautiful and easy walk.
So on vacation I love visiting National Parks (to get my passport stamped etc). We took poles, cameras and map and went to the see the gators and birds in this park. It did NOT disappoint. Despite the heat (humid high 80s) we hiked about...More
Does not disappoint we went on the boat cruise and got to see all the alligators Andy snakes and various species of birds it was well worth it
Barataria Preserve is a unit of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve south of New Orleans. There are several miles of trails leading through the preserve with great opportunities for wildlife viewing. I saw many alligators, two raccoons, an otter, a great egret, and...More
