Good vs Bad Areas in Nola

Hopefully you have a fat life insurance policy. Unlikely you leave the city alive.

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Bad Areas in Nola

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The first step outside your dwelling.

You’ve certainly come to the right place for sound advice on NOLA.

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I'm going on a trip soon to nola with some friends

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Why?

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We will most likely be walking to and from the french quarter.

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Would not recommend

If by soon you mean within the next two to three months, that is going to be a hot walk, even at night.

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We will most likely be walking to and from the french quarter.

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Real talk:

You’ll be fine. Don’t get smashed and act like idiots. Don’t get smashed and walk around at 3am.

In all honesty, there aren’t many “good/bad” areas of New Orleans when it comes to the Quarter and downtown. It’s all intermixed. A few blocks will be okay and then a few blocks are suddenly areas you have no desire to be in. You will see rough looking dudes all throughout the Quarter. You’ll see plenty of other tourists having a good time.

Just don’t be an idiot. And don’t be an idiot at 3am.

Avoid the area south of Lake Pontchartrain and east of the 17th Street Canal.

The issue is NOLA can get back from one block to the next. So we would have to see the place.

But the WHD is all pretty good, not really anything to worry about. Its a little bit of walk from the WHD to the FQ...but why would you want to be in the FQ anyway? It fricking blows.

There are way better places to go.

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If in that area, I would say avoid canal street at night. Just cross it, don’t walk along it. Also, nothing good happens on the early blocks of Bourbon Street.

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Sage advice from the Earlster

Skip the first block or two of Bourbon, take Royal or something then cut over.

Or just go Uptown, MidCity or to Frenchmen instead

It’s a goddamn shame such warnings are necessary. No reason why the entire FQ can’t be completely safe. It’s a real shame what Canal Street has been allowed to turn into.