Lafitte Greenway

The Lafitte Greenway is a trail for pedestrians and bicycles located in New Orleans, Louisiana, extending from Louis Armstrong Park to Bayou St. John and beyond.

Passing through the Tremé, Lafitte, and Mid-City, the trail essentially connects neighborhoods from the French Quarter to Lakeview.

[5] Construction of Design Workshop's award-winning[6] plan was funded largely through Disaster Community Development Block Grants (CDBG-D) allocated after Hurricane Katrina, with the initial phase costing $9.1 million.

[7] This area has served as a transportation corridor for New Orleans since at least 1794.The land presently occupied by the Greenway was previously used by the Southern Railway (U.S.) and before that by the Carondelet Canal.

Ideas for repurposing the land began to percolate in the 1970s from civil rights activists such as Rudy Lombard and in the work of architect Clifton James.