Neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Bywater
Bywater is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans.
A subdistrict of the Bywater District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: Florida Avenue to the north, the Industrial Canal to the east, the Mississippi River to the south, and the railroad tracks along Homer Plessy Way to the west. Bywater is part of the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. It includes part or all of Bywater Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
How locals move
Getting around Bywater the local way
- 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. Last edited 2026-09.
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