St. Bernard Parish Net - An Online Guide To St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana

Tourism and Attractions

St. Bernard Parish offers an assortment of attractions that reveal its rich history. The Chalmette National Battlefield and Cemetery located on St. Bernard Highway in Arabi if the site of the Battle of New Orleans where General Jackson and his outnumbered mix of Army regulars, locals and privateers held back Britain's finest generals and troops who had defeated Napoleon's forces at Waterloo to end any British hopes of gaining a foothold again in the United States.

The San Bernado Scenic Byway Byway (La. Hwy. 46) traverses St. Bernard from Jackson Barracks at the Parish's border with New Orleans passing aforementioned historic sites such as the Chalmette Battlefield and Cemetary as it makes it way on a scenic drive throgh oak groves and rural scenery along bayous into lower St. Bernard to the fishing villages of Hopedale, Shell Beach, Yscloskey, Delacroix where many of the desendents of St. Bernard's settlers from the Canary Islands, the Islenos. reside today. The Islenos Museum and the Ducros Museum offers a look into the history and heritage of the Islenos.

St. Bernard State Park provides outdoor recreation and camping on a 358-acre site just 18 miles away from New Orleans' French Quarter.

St. Bernard Parish has several sites included in the National Register of Historic Places. including Chalmette National Battlefield, The Friscoville Street Historic District In Arabi, The Old Arabi Historic District and others.

The Jackson Barracks Military Museum offers an assortment of military hardware and displays chronicling the history of the United States at the historic Jackson Barracks located in New Orleans at the St. Bernard Parish line.