Retiring in Sept. Lifetime dream to go to New Orleans. Need help planning and finding off the grid stuff… Not like off the grid as in no electricity or running water… more like the really good places to go that nobody really knows about…. can anyone help?
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Where are you coming from and what month? Driving from somewhere in the US or flying in?
- I remember "Love Bug" season when I was driving in that state.
If this is your first time visit - some of the "ordinary" things that millions of tourists see still - might be useful too!
https://www.travellerspoint.com/guide/New_Orleans/
Fishing? See and maybe wrestle alligators up close? Swamp tour? Voodoo Museum?
Google type search will give you some suggestions. What you can see and do depends on time, money and If you have transportation.
Up to you.
I haven't been to NOLA (New Orleans LouisianA) for 20 years, and we went in December - before Katrina changed the landscape drastically. Normally the problem there is the heat and humidity, but when we were there it was COLD.
Something that not many people take advantage of is the National Park Service Jean Lafitte French Quarter Visitor's Center. https://www.nps.gov/jela/planyourvisit/french-quarter-site.htm A visit is free, and you can get a lot of information there. Currently this center is also hosting the New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park. There are six sites distributed across southern Louisiana but we only visited a couple of them. One that we did go to was the Chalmette Battlefield - the site of the Battle of New Orleans. Chalmette
Something I did not expect to like but really found fascinating was the World War II museum. We also took a ferry across the river and walked around over there. And also visited where they make the Mardi Gras parade floats.
We stayed in a condo and the first day they gave us a talk about the local slang https://grandmarmercedes.travellerspoint.com/42/