Girard Playground
Girard Playground is a park in Louisiana, at a modelled elevation of 0 m. Laborde Mountain stands 13 m to the east, 6.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Compassionate Friends Memorial Garden, a historic site 1.5 miles away. Great River Road passes 3.8 miles off.
How to reach it
- 3.8 mi off the Great River Road, National
- 7.5 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
- 9.1 mi off the San Bernardo Scenic Byway
- 25.0 mi off the Louisiana Scenic Bayou Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Collapsed Observarion Deck · 24 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Compassionate Friends Memorial Garden: 1.5 mi
- USCGC WHITE ALDER Memorial: 4.9 mi
- Louisiana Law Enforcement Officers Memorial: 5.8 mi
- Wedell Monument: 6.2 mi
- Hurricane Katrina Memorial: 6.3 mi
- Lafreniere Park: 1.5 mi
- Highway Park: 1.6 mi
- Green Acres Park: 1.9 mi
- Erlanger Tot-Lot: 1.9 mi
- Greenlawn Terrace: 2.1 mi
- New Orleans Nightmare Haunted House: 5.0 mi
- Gumbo Festival: 6.6 mi
- Storyland: 6.8 mi
- New Orleans Botanical Gardens: 6.9 mi
- Historic Oak Grove: 7.0 mi
- Louisiana Fire Museum: 3.3 mi
- Louisiana Toy Train Museum: 3.9 mi
- Longue Vue House and Gardens: 5.7 mi
- Louisiana Children's Museum: 7.0 mi
- New Orleans Museum of Art: 7.1 mi
- LaSalle's Landing: 4.1 mi
- Jendiva 2001: 6.7 mi
- Ancestral Legacy: 7.0 mi
- Sydney & Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden: 7.0 mi
- José Martí: 7.4 mi
- Audubon Louisiana Nature Center: 14.6 mi
- Limited Access Area: 18.7 mi
- Manchac Wildlife Management Area: 19.4 mi
- Jean Lafitte Nature Study Park: 20.0 mi
- Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge: 21.3 mi
- Fazendeville: 13.9 mi
- Frenier: 14.6 mi
- Ruddock: 18.3 mi
- Laborde Mountain: 6.7 mi
- Sciences Botanical Common area: 8.2 mi
- LaBranche Wetland Watchers Park: 10.1 mi
- Shell Beach: 24.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Girard Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laborde Mountain | E 99° | 13 m | 6.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:06 | 18:41 | 19:13 |
| June solstice | 06:01 | 19:31 | 20:06 |
| September equinox | 06:50 | 18:27 | 18:59 |
| December solstice | 06:53 | 16:30 | 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 | 70 | 77 | 82 | 84 | 84 | 81 | 73 | 62 | 57 |
| Precip in | 5.2 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 5.2 | 5.6 | 7.6 | 6.8 | 6.9 | 5.1 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 4.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NEW Orleans AP, 5 mi away.
- Black-bellied Whistling-Duck86 obs
- White Ibis83 obs
- Mallard55 obs
- Muscovy Duck44 obs
- Anhinga39 obs
- Laughing Gull37 obs
- American Coot35 obs
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron34 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/340000221
Day trips start here
- Metairie · 2 mi
- Kenner · 3 mi
- Jefferson · 5 mi
- New Orleans/Lakeview and Lakeshore · 6 mi
- New Orleans/Carrollton · 7 mi
- New Orleans/Mid-City and Esplanade Ridge · 7 mi
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