Indeed that is why I tried June 9th, which is after June 7th by when everything is daily. I was way too lazy to look up the days of availability in the three times a week schedule.
If I am not mistaken the hours of service laws changed in last year or so requiring longer layovers....this may have been a motivator....
Take the Crescent northbound.
Taking the CONO out.Take the Crescent northbound.
I’m doing the same trip in October. It’s the reverse of what I did in 2019, so I’ve seen the lake - it was a neat ride across.
I've seen it lots of times but I still would love to see it although the likelihood is low since Crescent travel is no longer a viable option for us.
At least you will get to see the Bonnet Carré Spillway which quite often stops CONO in its tracks when it is opened during flood seasons. Maybe you will even get to see the Lake in the distance on the right hand side, and the spillway gates on the left hand side heading North on CONO.
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Yeah the random choice of occasionally using something close to a French pronunciation and at other times some random anglicized pronunciation i New Orleans is quite interesting, to say the least.When we lived in New Orleans--more than thirty years ago--we used to hear about the Spillway on the news during flooding season. It was pronounced by the newsreaders "Bonnie Carry" and it wasn't till years later, looking it up online, that I learned its true spelling. (This is true of a lot of the main streets in New Orleans as well--Chartres is pronounced 'Charters' and Burgundy as 'bur GUND ee.' That's how we could spot the tourists.
Why not?
When there is a New Orleans - Jackson bustitution you also get a nice view of the spillway and the railroad trestle. If you are lucky you may also see the equipment for your train deadheading from New Orleans to Jackson since the equipment does go across the trestle all the way to New Orleans, just without passengers. During our 2019 bustitution we almost saw the meet between 58 and 59 but I can't recall if this was north or south of the spillway.
The part of Lake Ponchatrain crossed by the Crescent from Slidell is the narrowest part of the lake and is only a 5 mile crossing. It's similar to the biew you get from the nearby I 10 crossing, which I did once, and it was pretty impressive. But I would think if you really want to get an idea of how big the lake is, stay in New Orleans an extra day, rent a car and drive over the Causeway, which is a 20+ mile crossing. Maybe some tour operators run bus tours across, I don't know that,but they should.
I'll be staying in NOLA for a few days, so I'll try to fit in a Turo car rental.The part of Lake Ponchatrain crossed by the Crescent from Slidell is the narrowest part of the lake and is only a 5 mile crossing. It's similar to the biew you get from the nearby I 10 crossing, which I did once, and it was pretty impressive. But I would think if you really want to get an idea of how big the lake is, stay in New Orleans an extra day, rent a car and drive over the Causeway, which is a 20+ mile crossing. Maybe some tour operators run bus tours across, I don't know that,but they should.
If you drive back through Ponchatula and I 55, you'll see that most of I55 is a bridge crossing a swamp. In fact, it seems that the only way you can get to New Orleans is by crossing a bridge. It's kind of like the Manhattan of the South.
Back before Greyhound acquired Continental Trailways, the Causeway was Trailways’ regular route from New Orleans, north.
Since when does #2 go to Bloomington/Normal?
