Mid-City New Orleans
Mid-City is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans.
Mid-City is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. A sub-district of the Mid-City District Area, its boundaries as defined by the New Orleans City Planning Commission are: City Park Avenue, Toulouse Street, North Carrollton, Orleans Avenue, Bayou St. John and St. Louis Street to the north, North Broad Street to the east, and the Pontchartrain Expressway to the west. It is a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2023, the neighborhood was cited as one of the "coolest" in the world by Time Out. In common usage, a somewhat larger area surrounding these borders, usually the areas bounded by the beltway formed by Interstates 10 and 610, is often also referred to as part of Mid-City.
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Worth seeing in and around Mid-City New Orleans
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.
- 01Caesars Superdome
Caesars Superdome commonly known as the Superdome, is an indoor stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. It has served as the home venue of the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League since its opening in 1975. Plans to build the Superdome were drawn up in 1967 by the New Orleans modernist architectural firm of Curtis and Davis and the building opened as the Louisiana Superdome in 1975.
2.8 km · domed stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA · Wikipedia - 02Smoothie King Center
Smoothie King Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is located in the Central Business District, adjacent to the Caesars Superdome.
2.9 km · multi-purpose indoor arena in New Orleans, Louisiana · Wikipedia - 03St. Louis Cathedral
The Cathedral-Basilica of Saint Louis, King of France, also called St. Louis Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral and basilica in New Orleans, Louisiana.
3.6 km · cathedral in New Orleans, USA · Wikipedia - 04New Orleans Museum of Art
The New Orleans Museum of Art is the oldest fine arts museum in the city of New Orleans. It is situated within City Park, a short distance from the intersection of Carrollton Avenue and Esplanade Avenue, and near the terminus of the "Canal Street - City Park" streetcar line.
1.7 km · art museum in New Orleans, Louisiana · Wikipedia - 05Congo Square
Congo Square is an open space, now within Louis Armstrong Park, which is located in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, just across Rampart Street north of the French Quarter. The square is famous for its influence on the history of African American music, especially jazz.
3 km · square in New Orleans, Louisiana USA · Wikipedia - 06Jackson Square
Jackson Square, formerly the Place d'Armes or Plaza de Armas, is a historic park in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960, for its central role in the city's history, and as the site where in 1803 Louisiana was made United States territory pursuant to the Louisiana Purchase.
3.6 km · historic park in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States · Wikipedia - 07Hancock Whitney Center
Hancock Whitney Center, formerly One Shell Square, is a 51-story, 697-foot skyscraper designed in the International style by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, located at 701 Poydras Street in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the tallest building in both the city of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana, and is taller than Louisiana's tallest peak, Driskill Mountain.
3.5 km · skyscraper in New Orleans, Louisiana · Wikipedia - 08Saint Louis Cemetery
Saint Louis Cemetery is the name of three Catholic cemeteries in New Orleans, Louisiana. Most of the graves are above-ground vaults constructed in the 18th and 19th centuries.
2.4 km · cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, consisting of three discontiguous parcels · Wikipedia - 09The Cabildo
The Cabildo, originally called "Casa Capitular", is a historical building in New Orleans, Louisiana. Originally the seat of Spanish colonial city hall, the building now forms part of the Louisiana State Museum.
3.6 km · historic building in New Orleans, Louisiana · Wikipedia - 10Xavier University of Louisiana
Xavier University of Louisiana is a private historically black Catholic university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. It is the only Catholic HBCU. Upon the canonization of Katharine Drexel in 2000 it became the first Catholic university founded by a saint.
1.2 km · Catholic university in the U.S state of Louisiana · Wikipedia
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Getting to Mid-City New Orleans
- Airports
- Louis Armstrong New Orleans (MSY), 16 km · Pensacola (PNS), 285 km
- Pensacola → Mid-City New Orleans281 km · quickest by road, 4h 41m · $26–36
- Houston → Mid-City New Orleans509 km · quickest by air, 4h 55m · $190–280
- Birmingham → Mid-City New Orleans7296 km · quickest by air, 16h 23m · £940–1,440
- 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 Mid-City 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 Mid-City 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/French Quarter, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Mid-City New Orleans
Mid-City New Orleans is 3 km from New Orleans, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- New Orleanslargest city of the state of Louisiana, United States1.9 km
- French Quarterneighborhood of and historic district in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States3.4 km
- Storyvilledistrict of New Orleans2.6 km
- Treméneighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States2.3 km
- Calliope Projectshuman settlement in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America2.4 km
- Dixonneighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana1.6 km