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Bookmark or Share- 7 things you didn’t know about Lake Pontchartrain1. Lake Pontchartrain covers 630 square miles, but it is only 12 feet deep on average. “There aren’t a lot of deep spots,” Trail said. “That allows the sun to penetrate to the bottom. So ...
- Lake Pontchartrain - WikipediaLake Pontchartrain from southbound causeway entrance Lake Pontchartrain's north shore at Fontainebleau State Park near Mandeville, Louisiana, in 2004. Lake Pontchartrain (/ ˈ p ɒ n tʃ ə t r eɪ n / PON-chə-trayn) is an estuary located in southeastern Louisiana in the United States. It covers an area of 630 square miles (1,600 km 2) with an average depth of 12 to 14 feet (3.7 to 4.3 m).
- Lake Pontchartrain Causeway – New Orleans, Louisiana - Atlas ObscuraIn 1969, Louisiana’s Lake Pontchartrain Causeway was officially recognized by Guinness World Records as the longest bridge over water in the world. Then, in 2011, a rival claim from China ...
- Lake Pontchartrain Causeway - WikipediaThe Lake Pontchartrain Causeway (French: Chaussée du lac Pontchartrain), also known simply as The Causeway, is a fixed link composed of two parallel bridges crossing Lake Pontchartrain in southeastern Louisiana, United States.The longer of the two bridges is 23.83 miles (38.35 km) long. The southern terminus of the causeway is in Metairie, Louisiana, and the northern terminus is in Mandeville ...
- Driving the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway: The Longest ... - UponArrivingThe Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is the longest overwater bridge in the world… at least to some. More accurately, it’s the “longest continuous overwater bridge.” Personally, I don’t think it should need that qualifier because aggregate bridges, those that cross a combination of water and land, should not be in the “overwater ...
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