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Lake Pontchartrain (/ ˈ p ɒ n tʃ ə t r eɪ n / PON-chə-trayn; [1] French: Lac Pontchartrain) is an estuary located in southeastern Louisiana in the United States. It covers an area of 630 square miles (1,600 km 2 ) with an average depth of 12 to 14 feet (3.7 to 4.3 m).
The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway (French: Chaussée du lac Pontchartrain), also known simply as The Causeway, [2] is a fixed link composed of two parallel bridges crossing Lake Pontchartrain in southeastern Louisiana, United States. The longer of the two bridges is 23.83 miles (38.35 km) long.
Fontainebleau State Park is located in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. The park is 2,800 acres (1,100 ha) in size and was once the site of a sugar cane plantation and brickyard operated by Bernard de Marigny and later by his son Armand Marigny. The park has a multitude of habitats for birds.
Mandeville is a city in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States.As of the 2020 United States census, [2] its population was 13,192. Mandeville is located on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, south of Interstate 12.
Pontchartrain Beach's original location is the present-day lakefront neighborhood of Lake Terrace. In the early 1930s, subsequent to the construction of a seawall extending from West End to the Industrial Canal which created a new shoreline for Lake Pontchartrain, Pontchartrain Beach was moved to a new location at the lake end of Elysian Fields ...
Footage from a local fire department shows the long line of stalled or crashed cars on the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway on the morning of Dec. 17, 2024. (St. Tammany Parish Fire) The world's ...
New Orleans Yacht Club is an extremely active sailing club [7] and is the organizing body for Mardi Gras Race Week, the Bastille Day Regatta [8] and Wednesday Night Racing on Lake Pontchartrain. New Orleans Yacht Club also is host to an active Viper 640 , Easterly 30, Optimist (dinghy) , S2, 420, and Sunfish fleet as well as multiple Handicap ...
The Causeway Bridge, said to be the "Longest Bridge in the World Over Water," according to its website spans 24 miles over Lake Pontchartrain connecting Metairie with Mandeville, both part of the ...