Metairie
Worth seeing in and around Metairie
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Tulane University
Private research university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
5.7 km · Wikipedia - 02
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Metairie
- Airports
- Louis Armstrong New Orleans (MSY), 11 km · Pensacola (PNS), 290 km
- Pensacola → Metairie286 km · quickest by road, 4h 46m · $26–36
- Houston → Metairie503 km · quickest by air, 4h 38m · $180–260
- Birmingham → Metairie7299 km · quickest by air, 16h 6m · £920–1,420
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Metairie
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 Metairie. 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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If you know how people move in Metairie – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Metairie
Metairie is 8 km from New Orleans, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Jeffersonunincorporated suburban community and census-designated place in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States2.3 km
- Elmwoodunincorporated suburban community and census-designated place in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States of America4.4 km
- Dixonneighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana4.1 km
- CarrolltonSection of New Orleans, formerly town4.3 km
- Lakewoodhuman settlement in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America3.2 km
- Mid-City New Orleanshuman settlement in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America5.6 km