Destinations · Louisiana
New Orleans/Gentilly
LA · 30.0150, -90.0560
From New Orleans/Gentilly, Louisiana, Byway's registries place 4 scenic byways within 30 miles.
Understand
In the first decade or two of the 20th century, most development in Gentilly was confined to Gentilly Ridge, a narrow stretch of higher ground around Gentilly Road. Most of the rest of the area was farm and pasture land, which tended to get marshy in heavy rains or when Lake Pontchartrain rose above its banks. Starting in the late 1920s, land reclamation projects and the construction of a flood wall along the lakefront opened the area to development. Whatever land that was still vacant in the 1940s was quickly filled with new housing in the post World War II boom.
Day-trip loops
Baked loops for New Orleans/Gentilly are growing. The weave below is measured today; plan a live day trip and the engine routes it now.
Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- San Bernardo Scenic Byway · 3 mi
- Great River Road · 4 mi · national
- River Road Scenic Byway · 7 mi · national
- Louisiana Scenic Bayou Byway · 22 mi
Lookouts
- Collapsed Observarion Deck · 22 mi
Named places
- Katrina Memorial · 1 mi
- Spanish Fort · 2 mi
- Laborde Mountain · 2 mi
- Louisiana Children's Museum · 3 mi
- New Orleans Museum of Art · 3 mi
- Pitot House · 3 mi
- Spanish Custom House · 3 mi
- Gayarre Place · 3 mi
A day out of New Orleans/Gentilly, planned on real roads
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More day-trip bases nearby
- New Orleans/7th, 8th, and Upper 9th Wards · 2 mi
- New Orleans/Faubourg Marigny · 3 mi
- New Orleans/Lakeview and Lakeshore · 3 mi
- New Orleans/Tremé · 3 mi
- New Orleans · 4 mi
- New Orleans/Bywater · 4 mi