United States
New Orleans
November, the city dries out.
Season
- January●●●●●King cakes back, krewes building floats
- February●●●●●Beads in the oaks weeks after Fat Tuesday
- March●●●●●After the parades, oaks dripping new green
- April●●●●●Crawfish boil season, French Quarter Festival in
- May●●●●●Mosquitoes back, afternoons sticky already
- June●●●●●Sweat through by noon, storms hitting at four
- July●●●●●Porches the only respite, ceiling fans turning
- August●●●●●August thick, the city watching the Gulf
- September●●●●●Storm tracks watched, heat refusing to lift
- October●●●●●Cool fronts beginning, Halloween starting early
- November●●●●●Air gone clear, oaks holding their leaves
- December●●●●●Reveillon dinners in the Quarter, oaks lit
Location
Curated places
Hotel Peter and Paul
Stay · 720 min · ───
A 2018 conversion of a Catholic parish complex in Marigny — the 1860s church, school, rectory, and convent house seventy-one rooms across four buildings. Beds heavy with linen, the breakfast room in the former rectory. One block from Frenchmen Street; you sleep in the church's quiet — that's the trade.
Coquette
Food · 150 min · ───
An 1880s Lower Garden District corner — French and Southern technique cross. Five-course tasting most nights, à la carte at the bar — gumbo always on, the rest rotating with the kitchen's reach. Take the St. Charles streetcar in from the Quarter; walk Magazine Street after.
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Sight · 120 min · ──
The largest holdings of southern art anywhere — five floors in a CBD building. Self-taught artists on the upper floors, the contemporary collection downstairs. The Center for Southern Craft and Design store on the ground floor worth fifteen extra minutes. Air conditioning, in July, an additional argument.
Algiers Point Ferry
Activity · 90 min · ─
The Canal Street ferry to Algiers Point — three dollars round-trip, seven minutes each way across the Mississippi. The west bank is the city's oldest neighborhood after the French Quarter; walk the levee and the brick-streeted core, the Algiers Courthouse the centerpiece, ferry back. Sunset crossing in July is when the river breeze starts working.