Lake Oaks Park

Lake Oaks Park is a park in Orleans, Louisiana. Lake Oaks Park is situated nearby to the quarter Pontchartrain Beach, as well as near the suburb Milneburg.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wesley Barrow Stadium and Benjamin Franklin High School.

Wesley Barrow Stadium

Pitch

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Wesley Barrow Stadium is a 650-seat baseball and softball stadium located in the Pontchartrain Park section of New Orleans, Louisiana. Named in memory of Negro league baseball manager Wesley Barrow, a longtime prominent figure in the New Orleans baseball community, the stadium includes a 200-square-foot climate-controlled press box, a public address system and LED scoreboard.

Benjamin Franklin High School

School

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Benjamin Franklin High School is a charter high school and a magnet high school in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Commonly nicknamed "Franklin" or "Ben Franklin", the school was founded in 1957 as a school for gifted children.

Lakefront Airport

Aerodrome

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Lakefront Airport is a public airport five miles northeast of downtown New Orleans, in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a general aviation reliever airport. Lakefront Airport is situated 2 miles east of Lake Oaks Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Milneburg and Gentilly.

Milneburg

Suburb

Milneburg is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. A subdistrict of the Gentilly District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: Leon C.

Gentilly

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Gentilly is a large section of New Orleans generally paid little or no attention by visitors. Nonetheless, Gentilly has a variety of local restaurants -- mostly very reasonably priced for local clientele -- some inexpensive accommodations, and a few unique sights.

Spanish Fort

Suburb

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Spanish Fort, also known as Old Spanish Fort, Fort St. Jean, and Fort St. John, is a historic place in New Orleans, Louisiana, formerly the site of a fort and later an amusement park. Spanish Fort is situated 1½ miles southwest of Lake Oaks Park.

Lake Oaks Park

Type: Park
Category: recreation area
Location: Orleans, Louisiana, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

30.03215° or 30° 1′ 56″ north

Longitude

-90.05757° or 90° 3′ 27″ west

Elevation

7 feet (2 metres)

Open location code

862F2WJR+VX

OpenStreetMap ID

node 358368424

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

GeoNames ID

4330315

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Localities in the Area

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