Harris Playground
Harris Playground is a park in Louisiana, at a recorded elevation of 0 m. Laborde Mountain stands 13 m to the northwest, 0.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Louisiana Children's Museum, a museum 0.8 miles away. San Bernardo Scenic Byway passes 2.3 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 0 m
How to reach it
- 2.3 mi off the San Bernardo Scenic Byway
- 2.5 mi off the Great River Road, National
- 6.2 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
- 23.4 mi off the Louisiana Scenic Bayou Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Collapsed Observarion Deck · 24 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- City Park: 0.8 mi
- Walter "Wolfman" Washington Memorial Park: 1.1 mi
- Mirabeau Park: 1.2 mi
- Hardin Playground: 1.4 mi
- Roehm Park: 1.4 mi
- Spanish Custom House: 1.1 mi
- Gayarre Place: 1.6 mi
- Spanish Fort: 1.8 mi
- Dreux Monument: 1.9 mi
- Wedell Monument: 1.9 mi
- New Orleans Botanical Gardens: 1.0 mi
- Storyland: 1.1 mi
- Historic Oak Grove: 1.1 mi
- The Cannery: 1.5 mi
- Congo Square: 2.6 mi
- Louisiana Children's Museum: 0.8 mi
- New Orleans Museum of Art: 0.9 mi
- Pitot House: 1.0 mi
- Le Musée de f.p.c.: 1.6 mi
- Katrina National Memorial Museum: 2.2 mi
- Sydney & Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden: 0.9 mi
- Jendiva 2001: 1.0 mi
- José Martí: 2.1 mi
- Mahalia Jackson: 2.5 mi
- Sidney Bechet: 2.5 mi
- Audubon Louisiana Nature Center: 7.7 mi
- Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge: 15.1 mi
- Jean Lafitte Nature Study Park: 17.9 mi
- Saint Tammany State Game Refuge: 20.7 mi
- CPRT Tracts 28 & 29: 24.2 mi
- Fazendeville: 6.7 mi
- Frenier: 21.9 mi
- Ruddock: 25.0 mi
- Laborde Mountain: 0.9 mi
- Sciences Botanical Common area: 2.3 mi
- LaBranche Wetland Watchers Park: 17.6 mi
- Olimpic Beach: 23.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Harris Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laborde Mountain | NW 313° | 13 m | 0.9 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 | 06:49 | 18:27 | 18:58 |
| 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, 5 mi away.
- White Ibis774 obs
- Brown Anole515 obs
- Mallard431 obs
- Anhinga386 obs
- Great Egret355 obs
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron342 obs
- Spanish moss303 obs
- Muscovy Duck297 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 node/358385326
Day trips start here
- New Orleans/Gentilly · 2 mi
- New Orleans/Lakeview and Lakeshore · 2 mi
- New Orleans/Mid-City and Esplanade Ridge · 2 mi
- New Orleans/Tremé · 2 mi
- New Orleans · 3 mi
- New Orleans/7th, 8th, and Upper 9th Wards · 3 mi
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