Pontiff Playground
Pontiff Playground is a park in Louisiana, at a modelled elevation of -0 m. Laborde Mountain stands 13 m to the east-northeast, 3.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Cedar Green, a park 0.2 miles away. Great River Road passes 1.5 miles off.
How to reach it
- 1.5 mi off the Great River Road, National
- 4.3 mi off the San Bernardo Scenic Byway
- 5.1 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
- 25.8 mi off the Louisiana Scenic Bayou Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Collapsed Observarion Deck · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Cedar Green: 0.2 mi
- Metairie Park: 0.6 mi
- Frederick Square: 1.2 mi
- Conrad Playground: 1.2 mi
- Little Flower Playground: 1.6 mi
- Louisiana Law Enforcement Officers Memorial: 1.4 mi
- Hurricane Katrina Memorial: 1.7 mi
- Wedell Monument: 1.7 mi
- Dreux Monument: 2.8 mi
- USCGC WHITE ALDER Memorial: 2.9 mi
- Storyland: 2.5 mi
- New Orleans Botanical Gardens: 2.5 mi
- Historic Oak Grove: 2.5 mi
- The Cannery: 2.7 mi
- New Orleans Nightmare Haunted House: 3.0 mi
- Longue Vue House and Gardens: 0.9 mi
- Louisiana Fire Museum: 2.3 mi
- New Orleans Museum of Art: 2.7 mi
- Louisiana Children's Museum: 2.7 mi
- Pitot House: 3.0 mi
- Ancestral Legacy: 2.1 mi
- Jendiva 2001: 2.5 mi
- José Martí: 2.7 mi
- Sydney & Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden: 2.7 mi
- George Washington: 4.2 mi
- Audubon Louisiana Nature Center: 11.2 mi
- Jean Lafitte Nature Study Park: 16.7 mi
- Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge: 18.5 mi
- Saint Tammany State Game Refuge: 22.8 mi
- Limited Access Area: 23.1 mi
- Fazendeville: 9.2 mi
- Frenier: 19.4 mi
- Ruddock: 23.1 mi
- Laborde Mountain: 3.2 mi
- Sciences Botanical Common area: 5.3 mi
- LaBranche Wetland Watchers Park: 14.8 mi
- Shell Beach: 23.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Pontiff Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laborde Mountain | ENE 58° | 13 m | 3.2 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 | 06:50 | 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 | 55 | 59 | 65 | 71 | 79 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 82 | 74 | 64 | 58 |
| Precip in | 4.9 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 5.0 | 5.4 | 7.4 | 8.8 | 6.8 | 5.7 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NEW Orleans Audubon, 4 mi away.
- Brown Anole74 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle43 obs
- Io Moth37 obs
- Southern Flannel Moth36 obs
- Metric Paper Wasp35 obs
- Green Anole34 obs
- Virginian Tiger Moth32 obs
- Monarch30 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/988451730
Day trips start here
- Jefferson · 2 mi
- New Orleans/Carrollton · 2 mi
- New Orleans/Mid-City and Esplanade Ridge · 2 mi
- Metairie · 3 mi
- New Orleans/Audubon and University · 3 mi
- New Orleans/Lakeview and Lakeshore · 3 mi
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