It's been cold (not St. Louis cold - I'm feeling your pain folks) and gray here for the last few days but the sun popped out yesterday and we stopped working and set off for City Park. It's very similar to our Forest Park. It was good to see the live oak groves and get a little taste of some sunshine.
City Park - New Orleans
The first parcel of land was acquired in 1854, making it one of the country's oldest parks. Once the site of Allard Plantation facing Bayou St. John, City Park's 1,300 acres offer visitors a sample of the city's riches both in fine art and natural splendor. City Park is home of the New Orleans Museum of Art and the largest collection of mature live oaks in the world. Trees in the oldest grove are over 600 years old.
Hurricane Katrina did extensive damage to the park, with winds toppling an estimated 1,000 trees and damaging many more. The subsequent failure of multiple floodwalls brought about the inundation of much of the city, and almost the entire park was flooded with 1 foot to 10 feet of water that remained for two to four weeks, damaging all buildings, amusement rides, maintenance equipment, electrical systems and vehicles, and causing the death of more trees and landscaping - including nearly the entire plant collection in the New Orleans Botanical Garden.
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