Audubon Louisiana Nature Center in New Orleans, United States - reviews,open hours,photo spots,things to do

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Audubon Louisiana Nature Center

11000 Lake Forest Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70128

4.7(243)

Open 24 hours

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(504) 861-2537

Website

audubonnatureinstitute.org

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Orville FrazierOrville Frazier

Nature Center is housed at Joe Brown Memorial Park in East New Orleans, LA...on 5600 Read Blvd. East New Orleans Jewel Joe Brown Memorial Park has many amenities; walking path with beautiful surrounding, an awesome Gymnasium host basketball tournaments, stepping classes, offer activities pre teen, teenagers, seniors also golden ager, a swimming pool which offer water aerobics, swimming classes, recreational swimming, and many more activities. Also the Crown Jewel the Louisiana Nature Center and Planetarium vwhich will invite you in to study your nature your environment wildlife,nature,and its inhabitants, and the planetarium will take you to the farthest star with a complete understanding of our celestial body. Yes, this jewel of the East is New Orleans best kept secret.

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The Audubon Louisiana Nature Center offers peaceful scenery and nature immersion through a system of manageable length nature trails for all ages, toddlers to elderly. Options for boardwalk or dirt trails are available. The boardwalk trails have built-in benches at turn-around points perfect for those who require recovery after short distances. The Interpretive Center is only open 10am - 2pm Thurs - Sat but is worth planning your trip around if you would like to make this an educational visit or have small children to wow. While the facility is equipped with a Planetarium, it has been closed since the pandemic began and has not opened as of the writing of this review 3/2023.

Meredith RubinMeredith Rubin

If you haven’t made the trip out here, you definitely need to geaux! The park rangers are so genuinely passionate about what they do and enthusiastic about sharing it. The trails and the discovery exhibits are beautifully designed and maintained well. And the real STAR of the show (see what I did there?) is the planetarium experience - it’s not what you expect if you’ve been to planetariums before - this is a guided, personalized experience. It’s been weeks since we went and my kid still finds cool nature stuff on walks and asks me to send videos to Space Ranger Steve.

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Reviews of Audubon Louisiana Nature Center

4.7

(243)

5.0

Updated 2025 review: Great walking trails! Well maintained, well marked. The visitor center was a wealth of information and the park rangers were friendly and helpful. I would recommend to anyone in the area.

2019 review: The employees here are passionate about their work. I came as a single person and was welcomed into the planetarium ($8 for an adult) and it was great. The planetarium is geared to kids, but the gal doing the show was just lovely. I was not aware that the 2nd Saturday of each month is a farmers market, so that was a nice surprise. Everything else is free of charge. I walked part of the trails, and they were well maintained. I look forward to coming back and bringing...