Breakwater Park
Breakwater Park is a park in Louisiana, at a recorded elevation of 1 m. Laborde Mountain stands 13 m to the southeast, 2.2 miles off. The nearest named place is West End Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Great River Road passes 5.1 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1 m
How to reach it
- 5.1 mi off the Great River Road, National
- 5.4 mi off the San Bernardo Scenic Byway
- 8.7 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
- 22.2 mi off the Louisiana Scenic Bayou Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Collapsed Observarion Deck · 22 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- West End Park: 0.3 mi
- Retif Park: 0.5 mi
- Harlequin Park: 0.7 mi
- Tiara Park: 0.9 mi
- Fleur De Lis Park: 1.0 mi
- USCGC WHITE ALDER Memorial: 0.7 mi
- Spanish Fort: 2.1 mi
- Louisiana Law Enforcement Officers Memorial: 2.9 mi
- Katrina Memorial: 3.0 mi
- Wedell Monument: 3.2 mi
- New Orleans Botanical Gardens: 3.1 mi
- Storyland: 3.1 mi
- Historic Oak Grove: 3.4 mi
- The Cannery: 3.9 mi
- Congo Square: 5.5 mi
- Louisiana Fire Museum: 2.4 mi
- Louisiana Children's Museum: 3.1 mi
- New Orleans Museum of Art: 3.3 mi
- Longue Vue House and Gardens: 3.6 mi
- Pitot House: 3.7 mi
- Jendiva 2001: 2.9 mi
- Sydney & Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden: 3.2 mi
- José Martí: 4.4 mi
- Ancestral Legacy: 4.5 mi
- Mahalia Jackson: 5.4 mi
- Audubon Louisiana Nature Center: 9.4 mi
- Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge: 16.1 mi
- Saint Tammany State Game Refuge: 19.2 mi
- Jean Lafitte Nature Study Park: 20.0 mi
- Limited Access Area: 21.2 mi
- Fazendeville: 9.7 mi
- Frenier: 19.2 mi
- Ruddock: 22.0 mi
- Laborde Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Sciences Botanical Common area: 3.0 mi
- LaBranche Wetland Watchers Park: 15.2 mi
- Olimpic Beach: 24.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Breakwater Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laborde Mountain | SE 140° | 13 m | 2.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:05 | 18:41 | 19:12 |
| June solstice | 06:01 | 19:30 | 20:05 |
| September equinox | 06:50 | 18:27 | 18:59 |
| December solstice | 06:53 | 16:29 | 17:06 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 54 | 58 | 64 | 71 | 78 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 81 | 73 | 63 | 56 |
| Precip in | 5.3 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 5.9 | 4.9 | 6.0 | 6.3 | 6.5 | 4.6 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NEW Orleans Lakefront AP, 6 mi away.
- Laughing Gull53 obs
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron48 obs
- Great Blue Heron41 obs
- Brown Anole39 obs
- Mallard37 obs
- Brown Pelican30 obs
- Great Egret30 obs
- White beggarticks20 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/477417923
Day trips start here
- New Orleans/Lakeview and Lakeshore · 2 mi
- Metairie · 4 mi
- New Orleans/Gentilly · 4 mi
- New Orleans/Mid-City and Esplanade Ridge · 4 mi
- Jefferson · 5 mi
- New Orleans/7th, 8th, and Upper 9th Wards · 5 mi
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