#1 of 30 Things To Do in Luling
Science Center Planetarium
409 Williams Blvd Kenner LA - 504-468-7231
~8.11 miles from Luling city center
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Kenner Toy Train Museum
519 Williams Blvd Kenner LA - 504-468-7231
~8.18 miles from Luling city center
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Waterford Nuclear
17705 River Road Killona LA
~8.53 miles from Luling city center
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#4 of 30 Things To Do in Luling
Louisiana Superdome (Mercedes-Benz Superdome) - New Orleans Saints
Sugarl Bowl Dr New Orleans LA - 504-587-3663
~11.56 miles from Luling city center
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The Louisiana Superdome, often informally referred to simply as the Superdome, The Dome or the New Orleans Superdome is a large, multi-purpose sports and exhibition facility located in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana. It was designed in 1967 by the New Orleans modernist architectural firm of Curtis and Davis, which also designed the main branch of the New Orleans Public Library (1956-58).
The Superdome is primarily home to the NFL's New Orleans Saints, NCAA's Division I Tulane University football team and the Sugar Bowl college football game. It is also one of the few facilities in the United States which can adequately host major sporting events such as the Super Bowl and the Final Four; as such, given New Orleans' popularity as a tourist destination, whenever the...
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Metairie
Metairie LA
~13.33 miles from Luling city center
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Metairie (local pronunciation /'m?t?ri/ or /'m?tri/) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States. Adjacent to New Orleans, Metairie is the largest community in Jefferson Parish. It is an unincorporated area that would be larger than most of the state's cities if it were incorporated. The zip codes that serve the community are 70001-70006.
The original spelling, Métairie, is the French language term for a tenant farm which paid the landlord with a share of the produce (sharecropping), as this was the main activity of the area from the 1760s to the 1930s.
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Audubon Park & Zoo
New Orleans LA
~14.50 miles from Luling city center
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Loyola University New Orleans
New Orleans LA
~14.87 miles from Luling city center
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Loyola University New Orleans is a private, co-educational and Jesuit university located in New Orleans, Louisiana. Originally established as Loyola College in 1904, the institution was later chartered as a university in 1912. It bears the name of the Jesuit patron, Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Loyola is one of 28 member institutions that make up the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and, with its current enrollment of approximately 5000 students, is among the larger Jesuit universities in the southern United States. Loyola University New Orleans is ranked fifth best institution among Southern regional universities offering masters and undergraduate degrees in the 2008 issue of the annual America's Best Colleges issue and guidebook published by U.S. News & World Report. The Prin...
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Tulane University
New Orleans LA
~14.94 miles from Luling city center
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Tulane University (officially The Tulane University of Louisiana or simply TU) is a private, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Founded as a public medical college in 1834, the school grew into a comprehensive university in 1847 and was eventually privatized under the endowments of Paul Tulane and Josephine Louise Newcomb in 1884. Tulane is a member of the Association of American Universities as well as the colloquial Southern Ivy League.
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#9 of 30 Things To Do in Luling
Jean Lafitte National Historic Park and Preserve
New Orleans LA
~15.12 miles from Luling city center
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Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve protects significant examples of the rich natural and cultural resources of Louisiana's Mississippi River Delta region. The park, named after Jean Lafitte, seeks to illustrate the influence of environment and history on the development of a unique regional culture. The park consists of six physically separate sites and a park headquarters.
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#10 of 30 Things To Do in Luling
Longue Vue House and Gardens
New Orleans LA
~15.12 miles from Luling city center
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Longue Vue House and Gardens, also known as Longue Vue, is a Classical Revival mansion and garden located at 7 Bamboo Road, New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States. It is open daily; an admission fee is charged.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Bloom Stern the current house is in fact the second. The original house and gardens began in 1924. In 1934 landscape architect Ellen Biddle Shipman began to work with the Sterns on the designs of their gardens. Through the re-working of the gardens the Sterns decided that their house did not allow them to fully enjoy their new grounds and the original house was subsequently moved and a new one erected in its place starting in 1939. This new house was designed by architects William and Geoffrey Platt whose father, Charles Platt, was Shipman’s men...
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#11 of 30 Things To Do in Luling
Xavier University
5116 Magazine St New Orleans LA
~15.51 miles from Luling city center
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http://www.xavierprep.com/index.html
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#12 of 30 Things To Do in Luling
Metairie Cemetery
Metairie LA
~15.72 miles from Luling city center
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Metairie Cemetery is a cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The name has caused some people to mistakenly presume that the cemetery is located in Metairie, Louisiana, but it is located within the New Orleans city limits, on Metairie Road (and formerly on the banks of the since filled in Bayou Metairie).
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#13 of 30 Things To Do in Luling
Greenwood Cemetery
New Orleans LA
~15.93 miles from Luling city center
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Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery in Kings County, New York, now in Brooklyn. It was granted National Historic Landmark status in 2006 by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Located in Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn, it lies several blocks southwest of Prospect Park, between Park Slope, Windsor Terrace and Sunset Park. Paul Goldberger in The New York Times, wrote that it was said "it is the ambition of the New Yorker to live upon the Fifth Avenue, to take his airings in the Park, and to sleep with his fathers in Green-Wood". Inspired by Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where a cemetery in a naturalistic park-like landscape in the English manner was first established, Green-Wood was able to take advantage of the varied topography provided by gla...
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#14 of 30 Things To Do in Luling
Delgado Community College
501 City Park Ave. New Orleans LA - 504-483-4114
~16.31 miles from Luling city center
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Delgado Community College is a Louisiana public community college with campuses throughout the New Orleans metropolitan area, the East and West Banks of New Orleans, the East Bank of Jefferson Parish and on the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain in Covington and Slidell in St. Tammany Parish. The original main campus—City Park Campus—is located in the Navarre neighborhood adjacent to New Orleans City Park.
Delgado Community College is one of nine community colleges which operate under the auspices of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System. The institution originally opened in 1921 as Delgado Trades (plural) School; it went through several reorganizations and was finally declared "Delgado Community College" by the Louisiana State Legislature in 1980, under the administration o...
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#15 of 30 Things To Do in Luling
Tad Gormley Stadium
New Orleans LA
~16.70 miles from Luling city center
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Tad Gormley Stadium is a multipurpose outdoor stadium located in City Park in New Orleans, Louisiana, named for Frank "Tad" Gormley. It has been used for football, track & field, and soccer. It played host to the US Olympic Track & Field Trials for the 1992 Summer Olympics. Its most frequent use is for high school football, which attracts a large following in the South. In recent years, Tulane University has sometimes played its homecoming football game at Gormley to provide a better game-day atmosphere than at their regular home, the Louisiana Superdome.
The stadium was built in 1937; its original name was City Park Stadium. In the early years of the stadium, fans often packed the stands or stood around the field to watch high school football games. The record for attendance was set in 1...
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Magazine Street
New Orleans
~16.79 miles from Luling city center
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Magazine Street is a major thoroughfare in New Orleans, Louisiana. Like Tchoupitoulas Street, St. Charles Avenue, and Claiborne Avenue, it reflects the curving course of the Mississippi River. The street took its name from an ammunition magazine located on the street in colonial times.
The downriver end of Magazine Street is at Canal Street; on the other side of Canal Street in the French Quarter the street becomes Decatur Street. From Canal through the Central Business District and Lower Garden District, Magazine Street is one-way in the upriver direction; downriver traffic forks to join Camp Street, the next street away from the river.
The street follows the length of the crescent through Uptown. After several miles of residential and commercial neighborhoods, it cuts through Audubon...
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New Orleans Botanical Garden
New Orleans LA
~16.96 miles from Luling city center
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The New Orleans Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located in City Park, New Orleans, Louisiana.
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New Orleans Museum of Art
New Orleans LA
~17.09 miles from Luling city center
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The New Orleans Museum of Art (often referred to as NOMA) in New Orleans, Louisiana, was established in 1911 as the Delgado Museum of Art with a bequest from Isaac Delgado. It is the city's oldest fine arts institution, located within City Park a short distance from the intersection of Carrollton Avenue and Esplanade Avenue.
In addition to the main museum building the museum also includes the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, a landscaped 5-acre (20,000 m2) outdoor site with 50 sculptures set beneath live oaks, pines and magnolias amidst footpaths and lagoons.
E. John Bullard, Executive Director of the Museum since April 1973
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New Orleans City Hall
New Orleans LA
~17.21 miles from Luling city center
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#20 of 30 Things To Do in Luling
Garden District (Neighborhood)
New Orleans LA
~17.22 miles from Luling city center
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Garden District is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. A subdistrict of the Central City/Garden District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: St. Charles Avenue to the north, 1st Street to the east, Magazine Street to the south and Toledano Street to the west. The National Historic Landmark district extends a little further. The area was originally developed between 1832 to 1900. It may be one of the best preserved collection of historic southern mansions in the United States. The 19th century origins of the Garden District illustrate wealthy newcomers building opulent structures based upon the prosperity of New Orleans in that era. (National Trust, 2006)
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#21 of 30 Things To Do in Luling
City Park
New Orleans LA
~17.38 miles from Luling city center
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City Park, a 1,300 acre (5.3 km²) public park in New Orleans, Louisiana, is the 6th-largest and 7th-most-visited urban public park in the United States. Although it is an urban park whose land is owned by the City of New Orleans, it is administered by the City Park Improvement Association, an arm of state government, not by the New Orleans Parks and Parkways Department. City Park is very unusual in that it is a largely self-supporting public park, with most of its annual budget derived from self-generated revenue through user fees and donations. In the wake of the enormous damage inflicted upon the park due to Hurricane Katrina, the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism began to partially subsidize the park's operations.
City Park holds the world's largest collection of ...
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#22 of 30 Things To Do in Luling
Superdome
New Orleans LA
~17.40 miles from Luling city center
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The Louisiana Superdome – often informally known as the Superdome, The Dome or the New Orleans Superdome – is a sports and exhibition facility located in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana. Plans were drawn up in 1967 by the New Orleans modernist architectural firm of Curtis and Davis, the company also responsible for design of the main branch of the New Orleans Public Library (1956–58).
The Superdome is home to the NFL's New Orleans Saints and the NCAA's Division I Tulane University football team. It is one of the few facilities in the United States which can host major sporting events such as the Super Bowl and the Final Four; as such, given New Orleans' popularity as a tourist destination, whenever the Superdome bids to host such an event it routinely makes the "sh...
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#23 of 30 Things To Do in Luling
New Orleans Arena - New Orleans Hornets
New Orleans
~17.43 miles from Luling city center
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The New Orleans Arena is an indoor arena in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is located in the city's Central Business District, adjacent to the Louisiana Superdome.
It has been home to the New Orleans Hornets of the NBA since 2002, and is also home to some Tulane University basketball games as well as some high school basketball games and other special events. The now-defunct New Orleans Brass of the ECHL played in the New Orleans Arena their last three seasons before their demise in 2002. Since February 2004, the New Orleans VooDoo, of the Arena Football League (AFL), played their home games in the arena until the team folded in 2008.
The arena was completed in 1999 at a cost of $114 million and officially opened on October 19, 1999. The Brass was the main tenant for its first three years un...
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#24 of 30 Things To Do in Luling
Saint Louis Cemetery
New Orleans LA
~17.51 miles from Luling city center
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Saint Louis Cemetery is the name of three Roman Catholic cemeteries in New Orleans, Louisiana.
All of these graves are above ground vaults; most were constructed in the 18th century and 19th century.
Doug Keister, author/photographer of "Going Out in Style: The Architecture of Eternity" states that
The custom of above-ground burial in New Orleans is a mixture of folklore and fact.
The vaults are in fact more due to French and Spanish tradition than they are to water table problems.
Cemeteries #1 and #2 are included on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.
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#25 of 30 Things To Do in Luling
Coliseum Square
New Orleans LA
~17.71 miles from Luling city center
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At its inception in 1972, Coliseum Square Association spearheaded the revival of the newly-coined ‘Lower Garden District’ by leading the fight against a Mississippi River Bridge ramp through the heart of the neighborhood, and by achieving National Register historic designation. In the ensuing years, CSA has worked diligently with the city to institute zoning guidelines that protect historic buildings and ensure appropriate new construction, and has been instrumental in the revitalization of Coliseum Square and other greenspaces, including construction and ongoing maintenance of a favorite neighborhood gathering place ~ the fountain.
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#26 of 30 Things To Do in Luling
New Orleans City Park
New Orleans LA
~17.71 miles from Luling city center
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Approximately 14 million visitors come through the Park each year to enjoy its magnificent oak trees, picturesque statues and fountains
City Park, a 1,300 acre (5.3 km²) public park in New Orleans, Louisiana, is the 6th-largest and 7th-most-visited urban public park in the United States. Although it is an urban park whose land is owned by the City of New Orleans, it is administered by the City Park Improvement Association, an arm of state government, not by the New Orleans Parks and Parkways Department. City Park is very unusual in that it is a largely self-supporting public park, with most of its annual budget derived from self-generated revenue through user fees and donations. In the wake of the enormous damage inflicted upon the park due to Hurricane Katrina, the Louisiana Department...
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#27 of 30 Things To Do in Luling
New Orleans Zoo Audubon
6500 Magazine Street New Orleans LA
~17.87 miles from Luling city center
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One of the country’s top-ranked zoos, Audubon Zoo offers an exotic mix of animals from around the globe, engaging natural habitats, lush gardens and resting spots, the mystical
Louisiana swamp and ‘hands-on’ animal encounters. With innovative natural habitat exhibits and an animal collection ranging from the unique white alligators to the extraordinary white tigers, Audubon Zoo has become one of the Gulf South’s favorite family gathering spots.
From the critter-filled swamps of Louisiana to the grasslands of Africa, you can explore some of the Earth's most intriguing habitats and the creatures that dwell within them at this world-class zoo. Rated one of the top zoos in the United States, it features two rare white tigers as well as Komodo dragons. One of the newest exhibits, Jaguar J...
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#28 of 30 Things To Do in Luling
Orpheum Theater
New Orleans LA
~17.89 miles from Luling city center
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The Orpheum Theater is a theater in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Also known as RKO Orpheum, it was esigned by G. Albert Lansburgh, built in 1918, and opened for vaudeville in 1921. The Beaux Arts style building has 1800 seats. Soon after opening it became a movie house. In 1979, the Orpheum was scheduled for demolition but was rescued and underwent a $3 million renovation. It reopened in 1989 as home to the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, whose musicians prize the auditorium for its acoustical purity. The theater is an example of "vertical hall" construction, initially built to provide perfect sight lines and acoustics for vaudeville shows which didn't have the benefit of amplifiers or modern lighting. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Plac...
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#29 of 30 Things To Do in Luling
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
New Orleans LA
~17.90 miles from Luling city center
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The Ogden Museum of Southern Art is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, within the Central Business District. It is associated with the University of New Orleans.
Its focus is the visual arts and culture of the American South within the context of the region's history and culture. Aside from its permanent collections, changing exhibitions, educational programs, and publications, the museum also houses the Goldring-Woldenberg Institute for the Advancement of Southern Art and Culture.
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#30 of 30 Things To Do in Luling
Confederate Memorial Hall
New Orleans LA
~17.90 miles from Luling city center
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Confederate Memorial Hall is a museum located in New Orleans, Louisiana containing historical artifacts related to the Confederate States of America and the American Civil War. It houses the second largest collection of Confederate Civil War items in the world, behind the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia. The museum's building is known as the "Battle Abbey of the South" due to its elaborate stained glass windows and distinctive church-like architecture. It is the oldest continually active museum in Louisiana.
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