Fontainebleau State Park
Subnational Park · Mandeville, Louisiana
Twenty-eight hundred acres on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain at Mandeville, built on the grounds of a sugar plantation whose BRICK SUGAR MILL RUINS STILL STAND IN THE WOODS. It has the best public beach on the lake, a live oak alley, marsh and hardwood trails, and the TAMMANY TRACE — a thirty-one-mile rail-trail — runs straight through it. It is the closest good state park to New Orleans, about forty-five minutes over the Causeway, and it is where the city goes to camp.
62883 Highway 1089, Mandeville, Louisiana, 70448, United States
Open daily year round with a small per-person day-use fee at the gate; under-threes and over-sixty-twos generally free. Gates close in the evening and open early. Camping, cabins and the group camp are reserved online through Louisiana State Parks and BOOK MONTHS AHEAD for weekends and holidays. SWIMMING IS SUBJECT TO POSTED WATER-QUALITY ADVISORIES and the beach closes on them. THE PARK HAS CLOSED FOR EXTENDED PERIODS AFTER HURRICANES AND STORM SURGE — check its status before driving, particularly from June to November.
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