Fort Pike State Historic Site
Fort Pike State Historic Site is a park in Louisiana, at a recorded elevation of 1 m. Laborde Mountain stands 13 m to the west-southwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Olimpic Beach, a beach 1.6 miles away. Louisiana Scenic Bayou Byway passes 8.7 miles off. 3 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1 m
How to reach it
- 8.7 mi off the Louisiana Scenic Bayou Byway
- 9.1 mi off the NASA Scenic Byway to Space
- 19.9 mi off the Great River Road, National
- 19.3 mi off the Beach Boulevard Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Collapsed Observarion Deck · 21 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Fritchie Park: 6.0 mi
- Wimbleton Park: 6.9 mi
- Duckworth Park: 7.2 mi
- Sam Bosco Park: 7.3 mi
- Veterans Memorial Park: 7.6 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 7.6 mi
- Griffith Monument: 8.1 mi
- September 11th Memorial: 8.3 mi
- Camp Salmen Lodge: 10.1 mi
- Đền Quốc Tổ: 14.2 mi
- INFINITY Science Center: 12.8 mi
- Pearl River Museum: 14.6 mi
- Bayou Lacombe Museum: 16.1 mi
- House of Dance & Feathers: 21.5 mi
- Los Isleños Museum Complex: 21.7 mi
- Đức Mẹ La Vang: 14.0 mi
- Resurrection Statue: 17.2 mi
- Ruby Bridges: 22.0 mi
- Bywater Art Garden: 22.8 mi
- Nord Sculpture: 23.3 mi
- St. Tammany Fishing Pier: 4.6 mi
- St. Tammany Fishing Pier: 4.6 mi
- Pearl River Eco Tours: 5.5 mi
- Cajun Encounters: 6.1 mi
- Music Box Village: 22.4 mi
- White Kitchen Preserve: 5.6 mi
- Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge: 8.7 mi
- Audubon Louisiana Nature Center: 16.3 mi
- Saint Tammany State Game Refuge: 16.9 mi
- Olimpic Beach: 1.6 mi
- Lakeshore Beach: 19.5 mi
- Clermont Harbor Beach: 20.2 mi
- Order of the Arrow Garden: 10.3 mi
- Sciences Botanical Common area: 22.0 mi
- Crosby Arboretum: 23.8 mi
- Logtown: 10.7 mi
- Gainesville: 14.1 mi
- Fazendeville: 21.7 mi
- Mount Saint Malo: 21.7 mi
- Magnolia Mound: 22.7 mi
- Laborde Mountain: 24.1 mi
- Slidell I-10 Rest Area & Visitor's Center: 9.3 mi
- Mississippi Welcome Center: 13.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Fort Pike State Historic Site. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laborde Mountain | WSW 242° | 13 m | 24.1 mi |
| Mount Saint Malo | SSE 157° | 1 m | 21.7 mi |
| Magnolia Mound | SSE 148° | 1 m | 22.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:04 | 18:39 | 19:11 |
| June solstice | 05:59 | 19:29 | 20:04 |
| September equinox | 06:48 | 18:25 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 06:52 | 16:28 | 17:04 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Sep–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 51 | 55 | 61 | 67 | 74 | 80 | 82 | 82 | 78 | 69 | 60 | 54 |
| Precip in | 5.9 | 4.4 | 5.3 | 5.5 | 5.8 | 5.7 | 7.7 | 7.6 | 4.9 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Slidell, 7 mi away.
- Brown Pelican4 obs
- Hardhead Catfish4 obs
- Great Blue Heron3 obs
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron3 obs
- Black-bellied Whistling-Duck3 obs
- American Alligator3 obs
- firewheel3 obs
- Spotted Sandpiper3 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/38499538
Day trips start here
- New Orleans/Eastern New Orleans · 17 mi
- Chalmette · 21 mi
- New Orleans/Lower 9th Ward · 21 mi
- New Orleans/7th, 8th, and Upper 9th Wards · 22 mi
- New Orleans/Gentilly · 22 mi
- New Orleans/Bywater · 23 mi
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