Department of Parks and Parkways

New Orleans offers thousands of acres of green space for visitors and residents to enjoy, which includes parks, playgrounds, city squares, neutral grounds, and street trees. Parks and Parkways manages, maintains, develops, beautifies, and preserves over 2,000 acres of public green space in New Orleans, which includes 2 major parks, 200 smaller parks and squares, including Jackson Square, Armstrong Park/Congo Square, and Lafayette Square, New Orleans' neutral grounds, the 18-hole Joseph M. Bartholomew Municipal Golf Course, located in Pontchartrain Park, and over 450,000 trees.