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It’s only natural for New Orleans to have a Jazz National Historical Park but few visitors are aware of it. Located at 916 N. Peters Street, by the Mississippi river and across from the infamous French Quarter . This park is the development of not only numerous musicians, but a majority of neighborhoods and many families who all played a key part in the shaping, creating and in keeping up the progression of this Historical park. A New Orleans hotel can be booked within walking distance of this significant Historical Park.

The Jazz National Historical Park , also offers self-guided walking tours, where you’ll get a map that highlights many New Orleans neighborhoods, venues, homes and businesses and informs you about their connection to jazz history. In addition, there are 2 separate jazz history audio tours along the ‘Jazz Walk of Fame’ that takes you through the French Quarter and past a series of lampposts dedicated to all the influential jazz musicians. Make sure to drop by the Visitor Center and grab a complimentary brochure. To reach the Visitor Center by car: Travel on Interstate 10 going towards New Orleans, take the Orleans Avenue exit # 235A and head south to the Vieux Carre in the French Quarter, eventually, Orleans Avenue turns into Basin Street. Continue on Basin Street and turn left on Conti Street. Turn left on North Peters (it’s the last road before the Mississippi River). The Visitor Center underneath Galvez Restaurant.

The Historical park also offers on-going Jazz performances, featuring some of New Orleans finest musicians, from guitarist Steve Masakowski and pianist Tom McDermott to the velvety vocal talents of Jane Brown and Sista Teedy. If all of the above still hasn’t whetted your appetite for New Orleans jazz, then check out the National Park Service’s development of a jazz CD, which spotlights the significant efforts of early New Orleans players, featuring a specially assembled group, the ‘Arrowhead Jazz Band’, appropriately named after the Park Service’s logo.

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