The under-8 set will be delighted with this playground (rated one of the 10 best in the country by Child magazine), where well-known children's stories and rhymes have inspired the charming decor. It offers plenty to slide down and climb on, and generally get juvenile ya-ya's out. Kids and adults will enjoy the carousel, two Ferris wheels (one big, one small), bumper cars, some miniature trains, a lady-bug-shaped roller coaster, and other rides at the Carousel Gardens, also in City Park. Delighting local families since 1906, the carousel is one of only 100 all-wood merry-go-rounds in the country, and the only one in the state. Note: At press time the carousel itself was closed for renovation.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's New Orleans 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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