At New Orleans City Park, you can visit botanical gardens or engage in all sorts of outdoor recreation. The New Orleans City Park offers visitors and locals of the Big Easy to experience relaxing outdoor activities. The most scenic part of the park is the beautiful
New Orleans Botanical Garden, which is 12 acres of numerous kinds of plants, including roses, aquatics, succulents, shrubs, perennials, and annuals. Another scenic part of the city park is the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, which features over 50 sculptures, all world renowned. For recreation, visitors may play tennis, golf, and field sports.
Besides recreation and nature observing that the whole family may enjoy, this park offers special activities just for kids. New Orleans City Park has a playground, plenty of opportunity to feed ducks, geese, and swans, and the Storyland Playground, which has exhibits from fairy tale scenes that children may climb and play on.
