A Walk in the Park: City Park New Orleans Audio Tour
Description
Welcome to a grand urban pleasure garden; home to the largest stand of old-growth oak trees on Earth. These magnificent Southern Live Oaks, dripping with Spanish moss, are silent witnesses to over 700 years of natural history and local culture. We will explore a mesmerizing landscape brimming with wildlife, picturesque bayous, secluded fountains, romantic stories, Neo-Classical and Art-Deco architecture, WPA-era gardens and bridges, Enrique Alferez sculpture, and “flying horses.” City Park represents the heart and soul of New Orleans. Join me as we celebrate the successful relationship between nature’s splendor and humanity’s creative achievements. The tour is ready whenever you are and the audio plays automatically at exactly the right time and place using your smartphone's GPS and the VoiceMap mobile app, which also works offline.
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Itinerary
The New Orleans Museum of Art houses a collection of over 40,000 objects including works by Picasso, Matisse, Monet, Pollock, Renoir, as well as Edgar Degas who lived in New Orleans for a short time. The architecture gives the impression of a Greek temple, slightly modified, suggesting a more subtropical appearance with the inclusion of a Spanish tile roof.
The New Orleans Botanical Garden is the first classical garden in New Orleans. It was funded by the Works Progress Administration.
There are over 30,000 mature trees in City Park, including live oak, bald cypress, magnolia, slash pine, maple, crepe myrtle, palm, and pecan. Although the park lost more than 2,000 trees during Hurricane Katrina, over 5,000 replacements have been planted.
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Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(13)
It's a good walk in a beautiful park. We really like the self guided audio tours because we go at our own pace. Two people can share a pair of Bluetooth ear buds so it is also a great value over a tour with a guide.
It was informative and perfectly timed! Love how it matches up to your GPS and where you’re walking. definitely do something like this again.
I have lived here all my life and learned things hat I never knew. It was a beautiful day. I highly recommend this picturesque informativewalk.
Such a beautiful park. It was great having the audio tour. We really liked that it knew where we were on the route.
Loved the area, the park was beautiful. Wish we had more time for the extras. Very informative audio tour.
Super easy to follow, great narrating and if you get off track, you get directions to get back on it
I’m sorry, our walk was cut very short due to a pouring rain storm, so we went into the art museum. From the little we heard we think it would have been good fun.
The tour was very interesting and knowledgeable. It's for a walking tour, but we rode bikes and did just fine with it.
Beautiful park, this is by far a wonderful experience. Food, gardens, amusement park and museum anything you could think of, it’s at this wonderful place
Very informative journey around the park. Easy to start and stop as I needed. Easy to understand the speaker
