Freret, New Orleans
Freret is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Freret is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. The Freret neighborhood contains a thriving commercial corridor. A subdistrict of the Uptown/Carrollton Area, its boundaries as defined by the New Orleans City Planning Commission are: South Claiborne Avenue to the north, Napoleon Avenue to the east, LaSalle Street to the south and Jefferson Avenue to the west.
The name of the neighborhood stems from Freret Street, which was named for William Freret, a mid-19th-century New Orleans mayor.
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Getting to Freret, New Orleans
- Airports
- Louis Armstrong New Orleans (MSY), 16 km · Pensacola (PNS), 287 km
- Pensacola → Freret, New Orleans284 km · quickest by road, 4h 48m · $26–36
- Houston → Freret, New Orleans506 km · quickest by air, 4h 51m · $190–280
- Birmingham → Freret, New Orleans7301 km · quickest by air, 16h 19m · £930–1,440
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Freret, New Orleans
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Freret, New Orleans. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextThe ferry at the foot of Canal Street (free for pedestrians, $1 for cars) will take you across the Mississippi to the Algiers neighborhood, and give you a scenic budget mini-cruise of the River in the process.
From Wikivoyage: New Orleans/Central Business District, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Freret, New Orleans
Freret, New Orleans is 4 km from New Orleans, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.