Hurricane Katrina Tour of New Orleans

3 Hours 30 Minutes

Mobile Ticket

Hotel Pickup Offered

Language Offered

Overview

Discover the resiliency of New Orleans on a 3.5"hour bus tour of the city's most heavily"impacted sites of Hurricane Katrina. With a knowledgeable local guide, visit districts in various stages of regeneration from Lakeview and St. Bernard to the still decimated Ninth Ward. Along the way, see the Hurricane Katrina Memorial, pass locations of the most catastrophic levee breaches and learn about the critical levee system in post"Katrina New Orleans.

3.5-hour tour of the neighborhoods damaged by Hurricane Katrina, in New Orleans
See where levees breached along the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain
Pass by rebuilding projects including the Make It Right homes and Musician's Village
Take in the Ninth Ward home of legendary musician Fats Domino
Stroll around New Orleans City Park on a 25-minute stretch break
Visit the Hurricane Katrina Memorial, located in the Old Charity Hospital Cemetery

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Your historic tour of post"Katrina New Orleans begins in the afternoon with pickup in the French Quarter. Climb aboard your air"conditioned coach and take in some foundational history from your guide as you wind through the city. Heading east from the French Quarter, you'll pass by the Ninth Ward, a heavily impacted district surrounded on three sides by waterways. Experience the vulnerability of this place - located at the site of massive Industrial Canal breach - and its burgeoning regeneration. Though this area is closed to tour groups, you'll glimpse several important celebrity"driven rebuilding projects including Make It Right houses, spurred but Brad Pitt, and Musician's Village, hosted by Habitat for Humanity, Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr. Keep an eye out for the restored home of local legend, Fats Domino. Further north, you'll pass through Lakeview, Gentilly and St Bernard, three badly hit areas in the process of regrowth. En route, see high water marks and memorials at the two other major levee breach sites - 17th Street Canal in Lakeview and the London Avenue Canal in Gentilly. Hear your guide's eyewitness account of the days surrounding the cataclysmic storm - one of the worst in US history - and learn how, years later, the region's natural and industrial surroundings continue to be impacted, from disappearing wetlands to oil and gas pipeline disruption. You will visit the New Basin Canal Lighthouse which was destroyed by Katrina but reconstructed and reopened in 2013. Your guided tour of this museum offers a bird's eye view of the area, including the levees along the lakefront and, in the distance, the longest bridge over water in the world, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway.The final leg of your tour passes by the Hurricane Katrina Memorial en route to the beautiful New Orleans City Park. Stop and pay tribute to the 1,100 people who died in the hurricane, then take in the lush beauty of this nationally recognized park. Learn a bit of its history as the former Louis Allard plantation and the effect of the London Avenue Canal Breach on the space.Your 3.5"hour tour ends back at the starting point in the French Quarter.

Hurricane Katrina Tour of New Orleans

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