Mickey Markey Playground
Mickey Markey Playground is a park in Louisiana, at a recorded elevation of 2 m. Laborde Mountain stands 13 m to the northwest, 4.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Piety Street Wharf, a park 0.2 miles away. San Bernardo Scenic Byway passes 0.3 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2 m
How to reach it
- 0.3 mi off the San Bernardo Scenic Byway
- 0.3 mi off the Great River Road, National
- 3.8 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
- 24.8 mi off the Louisiana Scenic Bayou Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Collapsed Observarion Deck · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Piety Street Wharf: 0.2 mi
- Clouet Gardens: 0.2 mi
- Larkin Memorial Park: 0.8 mi
- Bunny Friend Playground: 0.9 mi
- Confetti Park: 0.9 mi
- New Orleans Aids Memorial: 0.9 mi
- New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park: 0.9 mi
- Joan of Arc: 1.1 mi
- Moonwalk: 1.2 mi
- Execution of Jean Baptist Baudrau II: 1.3 mi
- Music Box Village: 0.8 mi
- Palace Market: 0.9 mi
- The House of The Rising Sun: 1.0 mi
- Mystic Tea Leaves: 1.0 mi
- Hex: Old World Witchery: 1.0 mi
- Bywater Art Garden: 0.3 mi
- The Art Garden & Floating Gallery: 0.9 mi
- Second Line Sashay: 1.0 mi
- Ruby Bridges: 1.1 mi
- Window into the Past, French Market Yesteryear: 1.1 mi
- New Orleans Mint: 0.9 mi
- New Orleans Jazz Museum: 0.9 mi
- JAMNOLA: 1.0 mi
- Old Ursuline Convent Museum: 1.1 mi
- BK Historic House and Gardens: 1.1 mi
- Audubon Louisiana Nature Center: 6.8 mi
- Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge: 14.3 mi
- Jean Lafitte Nature Study Park: 16.1 mi
- CPRT Tracts 28 & 29: 21.4 mi
- Saint Tammany State Game Refuge: 22.4 mi
- Olimpic Beach: 23.2 mi
- Shell Beach: 24.8 mi
- Fazendeville: 3.4 mi
- Laborde Mountain: 4.2 mi
- Sciences Botanical Common area: 4.6 mi
- LaBranche Wetland Watchers Park: 20.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Mickey Markey Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laborde Mountain | NW 313° | 13 m | 4.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:05 | 18:40 | 19:12 |
| June solstice | 06:00 | 19:30 | 20:05 |
| September equinox | 06:49 | 18:27 | 18:58 |
| December solstice | 06:53 | 16:29 | 17:05 |
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 | 53 | 56 | 63 | 70 | 77 | 83 | 84 | 84 | 81 | 73 | 62 | 55 |
| Precip in | 5.8 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 5.3 | 6.3 | 8.0 | 9.0 | 7.4 | 5.2 | 4.7 | 4.3 | 4.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chalmette, 4 mi away.
- Brown Anole352 obs
- House Sparrow290 obs
- Laughing Gull280 obs
- Rock Pigeon217 obs
- White beggarticks202 obs
- Northern Mockingbird172 obs
- Muscovy Duck159 obs
- Green Anole148 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/33871094
Day trips start here
- New Orleans/Bywater · 0 mi
- New Orleans/Faubourg Marigny · 1 mi
- New Orleans · 2 mi
- New Orleans/7th, 8th, and Upper 9th Wards · 2 mi
- New Orleans/Algiers · 2 mi
- New Orleans/Central Business District · 2 mi
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