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Shell Beach

Shell Beach from directly overhead

Shell Beach is a beach in Louisiana, at a recorded elevation of 0 m. The nearest named place is Saint Peter, a artwork 8.9 miles away. Wetlands Cultural Trail passes 8.8 miles off.

The story

beach in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, USA

Wikidata Q49324716, matched on coordinates and name (10 m apart).

What the record says

Elevation
0 m

How to reach it

Coordinates29.66271, -90.26758

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Larose Regional Park: 9.0 mi
  • Rosethorne Playground: 11.9 mi
  • Jean Lafitte Bayou Coquille: 12.3 mi
  • Jean Lafitte Barataria Preserve Trails: 12.6 mi
  • Pointe Aux Chenes State Wildlife Management Area: 12.9 mi
Historic sites: 56
Attractions: 44
  • Swamp tour airboat: 9.7 mi
  • swampwalk: 12.6 mi
  • Jean Lafitte Swamp Tour: 12.9 mi
  • airbout tours: 13.6 mi
  • Ragin Cajun Airboat Tours: 17.5 mi
Artworks: 41
  • Saint Peter: 8.9 mi
  • Blessed Virgin Mary: 9.0 mi
  • LaSalle's Landing: 21.5 mi
  • Ad Art: 21.9 mi
  • Birth of a Muse: 22.2 mi
Museums: 38
  • Lafitte's Barataria Museum and Wetland Trace: 10.0 mi
  • Center For Traditional Louisiana Boat Building & Museum: 16.3 mi
  • Bayou Lafourche Folklife and Heritage Museum: 16.3 mi
  • Odenheimer Aquarium: 19.8 mi
  • Louisiana Toy Train Museum: 21.7 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0618:4119:13
June solstice06:0219:3020:05
September equinox06:5018:2818:59
December solstice06:5316:3117:07

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 5080 °F: Sep–May.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F535662687580828278706055
Precip in5.34.25.25.25.57.27.56.96.33.83.85.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Marrero 9 SSW, 12 mi away.

Mean tidal range 0.32 ft at the nearest NOAA station.

NOAA CO-OPS station Lafitte, Barataria Waterway, LA, 9 miaway — today’s predictions live there.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/358372166

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