Laketown is a park and boat launch adjacent to the Treasure Chest Casino, at the end of Williams Blvd. in Kenner, Louisiana. The Laketown area consists of ample parking, bathroom facilities, picnic shelters, playground equipment, a fishing pier, and a boat launch. Open 24 hours, Laketown is a beautiful location to enjoy the river and the park is walking-distance to amenities on Williams Blvd. The Coconut Beach Volleyball Complex is located nearby.

This is a well-known boat launch and fishing pier in Metairie, Louisiana, located at the end of Bonnabel Blvd. and surrounded by Jefferson Parish's Linear Park. The park includes a parking lot and a great walking, biking, and running path along the lake. A fenced in dog park and playground equipment for kids have recently been added. This location is perfect to go relax and watch the waves from Lake Pontchartrain roll in.

This historic site is located along the concrete seawall where Bayou St. John meets Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans. Originally an active Military Fort, built in 1779, to protect the city from invasion via the Lake, this area later became an entertainment district filled with amusement parks, restaurants, camps, and jazz. The name "SwimHole" is a reference used by many area triathletes that will meet up at the location for Wednesday night swimming and weekend races. The beach features parking on the other side of the levee as well as a small playground and a well-lit walk, run, and bike path right along the lake's edge. It's the perfect location to relax and enjoy the sunset on Lake Pontchartrain!

**Pontchartrain Beach is not open to public. Contestants are expected and required to abide by property laws while obtaining photographs. We welcome any submit any historical photos you may have of this site.**

This boat launch is located at the mouth of the Tchefuncte River, one of the major contributing rivers of Lake Pontchartrain. This river and its tributaries drain much of St. Tammany Parish. This location features a gravel parking lot, but no other facilities. Enjoy the drive to the location, winding through the beautiful country side of Lake Pontchartrain's north shore.
The Madisonville Town Council plans to replace the old wooden piers, which have been severely damaged over the years by multiple storms, with new ones built with metal sheet pilings and concrete walkways, making them much less susceptible to storm damage

The Mandeville Lakefront Beach is located In the heart of Old Mandeville, at the mouth of the Bayou Castine stream. The Pontchartrain Yacht Club is nearby and the area has multiple boat slips. The pavilion serves as a recreational area and there's a Splash Park adjacent to the site. It's a great place to bring the kids to enjoy what their local area can offer! Make a day out of it by visiting the nearby Fontainebleau State Park, another one of Pontchartrain Conservancy's sample sites, a beautiful scenic experience of Lake Pontchartrain.

Located in Fontainebleau State Park in Mandeville, Louisiana, this beach is one of the most beautiful in the Lake Pontchartrain basin. Fontainebleau State Park is surrounded on three sides by water: Lake Pontchartrain, Bayou Cane, and Bayou Castine. The park is 2,800 acres in size and was once the site of a sugar cane plantation and brickyard.
The wealthy Bernard de Marigny, founder of the nearby town of Mandeville, developed this area across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans as a sugar plantation until 1852. The crumbling brick ruins of the mill, built in 1829, remain today and can be seen as you drive through the park.
The park has cabin rentals and RV access, miles of hiking and nature trails, picnic and playground areas, and the beach and fishing pier. An old railroad track that runs
through the park has been converted into the Tammany Trace as a part of the Rails to Trails program. It is a wonderful route for cycling, hiking and in-line skating. The miles of nature trail are perfect for bird watching, with some 400 species frequenting the park.
It is accessible all year long through the State Park, which requires admission.

Northshore Beach is a free public beach located in the Slidell area, off Carr Drive on Lake Pontchartrain. St. Tammany Parish Government’s Department of Public Works corrected erosion issues. Crews brought in several loads of sand to fix this problem. The beach is open to the public from 7AM-11PM daily. The beach area has two shady pavilions, parking, and picnic tables. It's utilized for swimming, wind sailing, fishing, and other activities; making it the perfect spot for an afternoon in the sun!

Bayou St. John was once a four-mile-long natural waterway navigable by canoe and small vessel. Originating some two miles northwest of the Mississippi River, the bayou flowed through cypress swamps to Lake Pontchartrain, training the swampy land of what is now New Orleans. A trail along the bayou was first created by Native Americans, who, in 1699, showed the route to New Orleans founders Bienville and Iberville. The natives knew the waterway as Bayouk Choupic. It then served as navigation from Lake Pontchartrain to the French Quarter when the area was a French territory. Since then, the Bayou has become a picturesque body of water with small earthen levees on either side, forming a narrow park space in the city.
Today the water way is commonly enjoyed by kayakers and utilized for aesthetics and recreation. Bayou St. John offers the opportunity to canoe or kayak the calm water of a scenic waterway and enjoy the scenery right inside the city of New Orleans. The paddling is easy, and this could be a fun little trip for families with kids. If you aren't much of a kayaker, the park is great to lay out near the water and catch some sun, with plenty of amenities nearby in the MidCity and Bayou St. John neighborhoods of New Orleans. It's a beautiful, integral part of New Orleans and worth a visit to see the stunning water wind its way through the city!

The first New Canal light was a simple wooden tower, erected at the end of a long jetty which protected the entrance of the newly completed canal that terminated near where the Superdome stands today. That first tower was replaced by a one-story, cottage-type lighthouse in 1855.
When the Southern Yacht Club (longtime New Canal neighbors of the lighthouse) erected a new, two-story clubhouse at the end of the 1870s, it necessitated that the lighthouse be raised. A three-story lighthouse, the third on site, was completed in 1890. By the early 1900s several land-building projects occurred along the lakefront and a reclamation project placed the lighthouse on dry land.
This third reiteration of the lighthouse was destroyed by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, and a replica has since been built. The Pontchartrain Conservancy took over the property in 2006 and now operates the New Canal Lighthouse Museum and Education Center. Visit to check out the center's interactive and informative displays depicting the history of the lighthouse and the New Basin Canal, the ecology of Lake Pontchartrain, and the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the surrounding area! The area also features nearby restaurants, parking, benches, and a wonderful walking, running, and biking path right along the lake's edge.

The Seabrook Boat Launch is a small launch with great fishing. The launch is located on the lake side of Leon C. Simon Drive and Hayne Boulevard where they meet Lakeshore Drive. The bridge is operated by the Orleans Levee District. The Seabrook launch features three high-water and two low-water back downs, in good shape and used daily.
This area is a popular trout fishing location, where the Intracoastal Waterway, which empties into the lake under the bridge, allows for some of the area's strongest tidal currents. There is parking located beneath the Seabrook Bridge.

The Tammany Trace is a hike and bike trail that spans from downtown Covington, through Abita Springs, Mandeville and Lacombe and ends in Slidell. The Pontchartrain Conservancy (PC) collects a weekly sample from the bridge crossing at the Bogue Falaya. The crossing is seconds from the Covington Trailhead: an old-fashioned railroad station and includes a covered waiting platform, a clock tower, a bandstand, a sloped, grassy, shaded audience area, rest rooms, water fountains, visitor center, exhibit hall and small movie theater. For access to the water, head down to the Bogue Falaya Wayside Park, which has a boat launch, bathroom, and playground.