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Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden
Audubon Aquarium of the Americas
The Museum of Art, the Besthoff Sculpture Garden, and the New Orleans Botanical Garden sit adjacent to one another in City Park. Esplanade Avenue, the southern border of the French Quarter runs directly to the Museum of Art, about two and a half miles. A streetcar runs between City Park and the Canal Blvd. side of the Quarter.
The Cabildo and The Prysbytere are on Jackson Square in the French Quarter. St. Louis Cathedral sits between them. The Aquarium of the Americas and the Steamboat Natches are a short distance away near the River. The Steamboat is actually in the River, of course.
The WWII Museum and the Ogden Museum are in the Central Business District not far apart and not too far from the French Quarter.
The Audubon Zoo is out St. Charles Avenue near Tulane and Loyola Universities. Normally, a streetcar ride out St. Charles Avenue is a good way to get close. Currently there is work underway on the tracks, however. Hopefully by time of the SLI Convention, the repairs will be done. A streetcar ride out St. Charles Avenue is a major New Orleans attraction in its own right.
Longue Vue House and Gardens is around a mile from City Park near the edge of the parish.
New Orleans is a compact city, especially in the old areas, and none of these attractions are a great distance apart. The Zoo is the most outlying of them, almost six miles from the French Quarter although straightforward to get to out St. Charles Avenue.
If you are in the French Quarter and somehow find yourself on Bourbon Street, go to the 300 block and step into the Royal Sonesta Hotel. Among its other attractions, the hotel maintains a beautiful tropical plant garden in an inside courtyard. Anyone is free to take a look.
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