Hale Boggs Bridge

The span hangs from two planes of cables in a fan pattern, a steel box girder 158 feet above the channel and 1,220 feet at its longest reach. It opened on October 6, 1983, seven years after the ferry accident that happened while it was under construction. The original cables had polyethylene sheathing that cracked before installation, letting moisture in, and a replacement project began in the summer of 2009. The Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation recognized the superstructure design in the year the bridge was finished.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Destrehan Plantation — 0.4 mi
  A River Road house begun in 1787 where, in January 1811, a tribunal of five slaveholders tried people who had risen on the German Coast, and where an exhibit now tells the revolt.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 17 mi
  The Garden District's 1833 cemetery of about 1,100 family tombs, closed to visitors in 2019 and reopened on October 1, 2026 for small guided tours run by the Preservation Resource Center.
• Whitney Plantation — 18 mi
  A museum on a former sugar plantation along the River Road that tells its story through the people who were enslaved there, with memorials to 107,000 enslaved Louisianans and 2,200 children.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 18 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.

More markers nearby

• George Prince Ferry Memorial — steps away
• Ormond Plantation — 0.4 mi
• Watercolors — 0.4 mi
• Destrehan Manor House — 0.4 mi