Louisiana

The Trust for Public Land and the City Park Improvement Association joined forces to restore and enhance the fifty acre Big Lake area, near the entrance of New Orleans' City Park.

In New Orleans, The Trust for Public Land helped create a Fitness Zone® area in City Park, one of the nation's oldest urban parks.

Few American cities are more vulnerable to climate change-related flooding, heat, and storms than New Orleans. The Trust for Public Land’s Climate-Smart Cities team is working with public agencies, neighborhoods, funders, and researchers to help New Orleans develop green infrastructure where it’s needed most.

The Trust for Public Land is working to secure funding towards the phased acquisition of this historic plantation so it can be included into the Jean Lafitte National Historic Park, permanently protecting this large environmentally and historically important property.

The Trust for Public Land worked in partnership with the New Orleans Recreation Department Commission and the Bywater Neighborhood Association to renovate this neighborhood park.

TPL helped the US Navy and Plaquemines Parish in Belle Chasse, Louisiana create a park that protects the Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base operations and the local water supply.