New Orleans Bucket List: 50 Things To Do When Visiting The Big Easy

We love New Orleans more than life itself. In our home city, there’s always a party going on. And if you’re visiting, it might seem a bit overwhelming at first. If that’s the case, we have a handy-dandy New Orleans bucket list for you!

Here at River Beats, we know New Orleans. We breathe New Orleans. And we’ve teamed up to bring you the best of the best from our city. From food and festivities to drinks and dancing, if you follow the list below, we guarantee you’ll have the time of your life.

Check out the River Beats New Orleans Bucket List below!

 

1. Stop to smell the jasmine in spring
2. See a flying cockroach
3. Lose your soul to a pothole
4. Eat raw oysters at Acme Oyster House
5. Try a snowball from Pandora’s
6. Eat a pound of crawfish on the patio at Bayou Beer Garden
7. Stop for beignets and a café au lait at Cafe du Monde
8. Laze by the hot pink grass at the Drifter Hotel
9. Take a shot of absinthe at the Pirate’s Alley
10. Drop everything to join a second line parade
11. Catch a shoe at Muses
12. Try the purple drinks from Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop
13. Get stuck on the wrong side of a Mardi Gras parade then try to cross over
14. Spend an evening at Snake ’n’ Jakes
15. Laze underneath the Chime Tree
16. Experience a home Saints game
17. Spend an evening on Frenchmen Street
18. And Bourbon Street if you’re brave (or wild)
19. Take a guided tour of one of the St. Louis cemeteries
20. Visit the French Market
21. Stroll through the Garden District
22. Order a muffuletta from Central Grocery
23. Visit the Tree of Life in Audubon Park
24. Order a Hurricane and listen to the dueling pianos at Pat O’Brien’s
25. Get a PoBoy from Parkway Tavern
26. Have a drink at the Carousel Bar
27. Get 25 cent martinis with your lunch at Commander’s Palace
28. Window show on Magazine Street
29. Brunch at the Ruby Slipper
30. Park yourself in a lawn chair at the Jazz & Heritage Festival
31. Catch a Mardi Gras Super Sunday
32. Ride the St. Charles streetcar
33. End up at Clover Grill at 2 o’clock in the morning
34. End up on a Bourbon Street balcony during Mardi Gras
35. Catch so many beads that you can’t lift your neck
36. Laze by the lakefront, maybe with a beer
37. Catch a jazz show at the Maple Leaf Bar
38. Bite in to a tiny baby (plastic, please)
39. Try a Hand Grenade from Tropical Isle
40. Take a day trip out to Jean Lafitte’s National Park
41. Ride the Creole Queen through the Mississippi River
42. Have drinks on the rooftop at the Hot Tin
43. Get your fortune read in Jackson Square
44. Spend a hot summer day at the New Orleans Museum of Art
45. Take a walk through the sculpture garden at City Park
46. Catch a movie (and grab a beer) at the Broad Theater
47. Grab a chicken sandwich from the best Popeye’s – the one on Canal Street
48. Walk down the neutral ground of Canal Street while the sun sets
49. Wake up early enough to join the Krewe of St. Anne on Mardi Gras day
50. Be safe, baby

 

 

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