Walkable
- Live music on Frenchmen Street
- Frenchmen Art Market features authentic art, jewelry, and creative crafts produced by local and regional artists
- DBA live music club that features local & regional acts nightly
- The Spotted Cat Music Club intimate jazz venue hosting live acts on a tiny stage for a standing-room crowd
- Snug Harbour Jazz Bistro live jazz & upscale Creole fare in an intimate, brick-walled space that dates back to the 1800s.
- St. Louis Cathedral is the oldest continuously active Catholic cathedral in America, built in 1727
- 11 minute walk
- The cathedral overlooks Jackson Square, featured in many tv shows and movies, and was where the Louisiana Purchase took place.
- Cafe Du Monde is the famous open-air coffee and beignet spot in the French Quarter
- Riverboat tours
- The National WWII Museum, formerly The National D-Day Museum, is a military history museum with warplanes, code-breaking machines and staged battlefield scenes
- It is located in New Orleans because it is where the Higgins Boat Yard made the amphibious vehicles used in D-Day, designed by a Cajun boat builder
- 16 minute walk
- Audubon Aquarium
- Preservation Hall presents intimate, acoustic New Orleans Jazz concerts over 360 nights a year featuring ensembles from a current collective of 50+ local master practitioners
- 13 minute walk
- Ogden Museum of Southern Art is home to one of the largest collections in the South. It hosts an acclaimed music series held every Thursday in its atrium, and it’s located within walking distance of restaurants, bars, shops and the French Quarter
- 16 minute walk
- French Quarter tours
- St. Louis Cemetery tour
- 16 minute walk
Farther Away
- Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, about 20 miles outside of the city, is a swampy park filled with old trees and stunning views named after the French pirate Jean Lafitte. Many trails are closed due to Hurricane Ida, but check out Twin Canals Trail, Visitor Center Trail, Bayou Coquile Trail, and Christmas Road Trail
- Audubon Park and Zoological Gardens
- Park across from Tulane University and Loyola University in beautfiul Uptown with great views of the river
- Accessible via streetcar from the conference center
- City Park is a 1,300-acre (526ha) green sprawl with multiple waterways, a sculpture garden, a stadium, a driving range, and the Museum of Art. Visit the Botanical Gardens to see prehistoric plants, giant staghorn ferns and exotic purple orchids woven around trickling cascades, rock formations and ornamental bridges.
- Ride the tilt-a-whirl at the olde-worlde Carousel Gardens amusement park
- At the time of the conference, City Park will be having its seasonal Celebration in the Oaks. During this family-friendly event, the park is full of lights. There is a narrow gauge train that goes around the park, a kid-friendly amusement park, a historic Story Land nursery rhyme-themed playground, minigolf, a Cafe du Monde, a botanical garden, a statue garden, the New Orleans Art Museum, and much more.
- Accessible via streetcar from conference (38 minutes via Canal streetcar (NORTA route 48), which includes 8 minutes of walking)
- Ghost tours mix city history with folklore stories involving ghosts, vampires and voodoo