CITY PARK TOUTED AS ONE OF 18 BEST IN U.S.A.

[Charlies Neighborhood News]

City Park touted as one of the 18 best in the U.S.A.

https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/the-15-best-city-parks-in-america?fbclid=IwAR0ObRCGiBJ1chTRWPxBxwVq-PY7dObv_ms7TYa1bBqG1l0ZzlP2-v7Cmps

"Once a spot for dueling Creole gentlemen to settle the score, City Park is a sprawling 1,300 acres full of lagoons, gardens, and majestic live oaks. Many of these trees are between 750 and 900 years old, comprising the oldest collection of live oaks in the world. Nestled amongst their burly limbs are a number of cool attractions: There’s Storyland, a whimsical kids’ park with life-sized storybook exhibits created by parade float builders; Carousel Gardens, an amusement park that houses an antique wooden carousel; the Botanical Gardens, an Art Deco-influenced garden that opened in 1936; and the New Orleans Museum of Art, which boasts a gorgeous Beaux-Arts interior along with nearly 40,000 objects.

Starting this summer, City Park offers two more compelling reasons to actually put down your Sazerac and leave the French Quarter: NOMA’s Sculpture Garden reveals its six-acre expansion (admission is always free) and the Louisiana Children’s Museum opens a sleek new $47.5 million campus there. But if you go to the park to look at, you know, nature, you’ll find plenty of untouched woodlands, wildlife, and waterways in its 60-acre Couturie Forest"