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Hardin Playground

Hardin Playground from directly overhead

Hardin Playground is a park in Louisiana, at a recorded elevation of 0 m. Laborde Mountain stands 13 m to the northwest, 2.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Roehm Park, a park 0.5 miles away. San Bernardo Scenic Byway passes 1.1 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
0 m

How to reach it

Coordinates29.98286, -90.06574

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Roehm Park: 0.5 mi
  • St Roch Park: 0.9 mi
  • Walter "Wolfman" Washington Memorial Park: 1.1 mi
  • Cabrini Playground: 1.3 mi
  • Washington Square: 1.3 mi
Historic sites
Attractions: 47
Museums: 43
Artworks: 42
  • The Art Garden & Floating Gallery: 1.4 mi
  • Mahalia Jackson: 1.4 mi
  • Sidney Bechet: 1.4 mi
  • French Opera: 1.4 mi
  • Charles "Buddy" Bolden: 1.4 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Peaks: 1
  • Laborde Mountain: 2.3 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • LaBranche Wetland Watchers Park: 18.9 mi
Beaches: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Hardin Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Laborde MountainNW 312°13 m2.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0518:4119:12
June solstice06:0119:3020:05
September equinox06:4918:2718:58
December solstice06:5316:2917:06

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F545864717883848581736356
Precip in5.34.14.65.94.96.06.36.54.63.63.64.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NEW Orleans Lakefront AP, 5 mi away.

  • White Ibis527 obs
  • Brown Anole505 obs
  • Muscovy Duck418 obs
  • Mallard401 obs
  • Yellow-crowned Night Heron308 obs
  • Great Egret270 obs
  • White beggarticks248 obs
  • Gulf Coast Buck Moth247 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/329956066

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