Lafayette Square
Lafayette Square is a park in Louisiana, at a recorded elevation of 2 m. Laborde Mountain stands 13 m to the north-northwest, 4.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Clay Monument, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. San Bernardo Scenic Byway passes 0.5 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2 m
How to reach it
- 0.5 mi off the San Bernardo Scenic Byway
- 2.8 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
- On the Great River Road, National
- 26.3 mi off the Louisiana Scenic Bayou Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Collapsed Observarion Deck · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Clay Monument: 0.0 mi
- Franklin Monument: 0.0 mi
- McDonogh Monument: 0.0 mi
- Bienville's Plantation: 0.3 mi
- UpStairs Lounge Arson Memorial Plaque: 0.4 mi
- Richard & Annette Bloch Cancer Survivors Plaza: 0.4 mi
- Harmony Circle: 0.4 mi
- British Plaza: 0.4 mi
- Duncan Plaza: 0.5 mi
- Musical Legends Park: 0.5 mi
- Eagle Saloon: 0.4 mi
- Bourbon Street: 0.4 mi
- Bourbon Street: 0.4 mi
- Bourbon Street: 0.4 mi
- Bourbon Street: 0.4 mi
- The Sazerac House: 0.3 mi
- Ogden Museum of Southern Art: 0.3 mi
- Confederate Memorial Hall;Confederate Memorial Hall Museum: 0.3 mi
- Forbes Theater: 0.4 mi
- Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience: 0.4 mi
- Four for Mardi Gras: 0.3 mi
- Churchill: 0.4 mi
- Striding Man: 0.5 mi
- Angela King Gallery: 0.5 mi
- John McDonogh: 0.5 mi
- Audubon Louisiana Nature Center: 8.7 mi
- Jean Lafitte Nature Study Park: 14.7 mi
- Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge: 16.2 mi
- CPRT Tracts 28 & 29: 20.8 mi
- Saint Tammany State Game Refuge: 23.7 mi
- Fazendeville: 4.7 mi
- Frenier: 24.0 mi
- Laborde Mountain: 4.1 mi
- Sciences Botanical Common area: 5.4 mi
- LaBranche Wetland Watchers Park: 19.4 mi
- Shell Beach: 23.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Lafayette Square. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laborde Mountain | NNW 340° | 13 m | 4.1 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 | 16:30 | 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 | 57 | 63 | 70 | 77 | 82 | 84 | 84 | 81 | 72 | 62 | 56 |
| Precip in | 5.8 | 4.0 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 4.7 | 6.9 | 7.3 | 6.8 | 6.8 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 5.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Terrytown 3S, 3 mi away.
- Brown Anole547 obs
- House Sparrow334 obs
- Laughing Gull281 obs
- Rock Pigeon267 obs
- White beggarticks262 obs
- Gulf Coast Buck Moth248 obs
- Northern Mockingbird219 obs
- Ladder brake215 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/27844731
Day trips start here
- New Orleans/Central Business District · 0 mi
- New Orleans · 1 mi
- New Orleans/Central City · 1 mi
- New Orleans/Faubourg Marigny · 1 mi
- New Orleans/Tremé · 1 mi
- New Orleans/Algiers · 2 mi
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