Taking a weekend trip with the wife this coming weekend but have to get some runs in. We are staying in the french quarter @ Ritz Carlton. Any good running routes from this area or is it a hotel dreadmill?
Thanks.
Great town for hill repeats, you’ll love it! 
No need for the dreadmill, though.
Get a city map from your hotel, but early morning runs from the quarter, through the CBD (central business district) down St. Charles ave are easy to navigate, give you a choice of some classic scenery, and grassy surfaces for some good out and backs.
You can easily access the levees, which have trails on top for long stretches, right out of the quarter, heading upriver.
Audubon park, also in the garden district up St. Charles, has a loop trail through it that takes you by ponds, old oak trees, and the zoo, and is a great spot. It’s a main thoroughfare, you’ll see the trolley’s, and it’s a safe road to be on.
If you wanna drive up to Lake Ponchartrain, there’s a trail along the south shore for as many miles as you’d like to run, and then there’s City Park, which is about the 5th largest urban park in the U.S., and has plenty of acreage to run around in .
All my info is pre-Katrina, mind you, so things around the lake may be different than memory serves. Check with the hotel, and with Mapmyrun.com for other courses, however.
Have fun, and be sure to focus on the eating in Nawlins, since that’s the best thing about the town, not the running.
They all went to bed.
I haven’t been there in a long while, but, you used to be able to run down St Charles (follow the trolley tracks) to Lee Circle (~1/2mile uptown from Canal St). From there on we used to run in the median where the trolley runs. I would guess that one could still do that. You can go all the way to Carrollton and turn right from there to Claiborne. Or, at Tulane U. you can hang a left and run through Audobon Park. The area below the quarter used to be ‘not so good.’
I’m sure that when the ‘yats’ wake up, they can give you better directions.
Actually, they’re partying. But, I think that means that they’re only awake in a technical sense.
BTW, I would put the pronunciation more like ‘Nwahluns.’
I’m not sure where the ‘trolley’ is in NOLA however if you get the chance to run down St. Charles you can run in the middle ground with the Street Car like the previous poster said.
On top of the levee is cool watching the river traffic as well as Audubon Park.