Site Navigation Alabama Florida Georgia Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee     Interstate 510 & Louisiana 47 Southbound Interstate 510 & Louisiana 47 Southbound A look at the southbound beginning of Interstate 510 from Louisiana 47 (Paris Road) southbound beyond the Interstate 10 Service Road. Paris Road travels southward from Little Woods to Interstate 10 & 510 as an at-grade facility. The vintage 1960s overhead lighting fixtures attached to the sign bridge no longer function. Photo taken 06/10/06. Interstate 510 & Louisiana 47 cross the Interstate 10 mainline at the Exit 247A/B stack interchange of the freeway below. The flyover ramps above carry Interstate 10 westbound traffic to Interstate 510 south and Interstate 510 north to Interstate 10 west. Photo taken 06/10/06. The abandoned Six Flags New Orleans amusement park lies southeast of the Interstate 10 & 510 junction at New Orleans East. The park was inundated with flood waters for weeks during September 2005 due to Hurricane Katrina. The damage coupled with the mass exodus of over half of New Orleans' population renders the fate of the facility unclear. Photo taken 06/10/06. Interstate 510 & Louisiana 47 southbound at the Exit 1A cloverleaf ramp for Interstate 10 east. Interstate 10 travels twenty miles to the junction of Interstate 12 west and Interstate 59 north. Seven miles east of there and Slidell is the Mississippi state line. Photo taken 06/10/06. An auxiliary guide sign touts the connections to the closed Six Flags theme park and the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility at Exit 2C. The right-hand lane defaults into the Lake Forest Boulevard off-ramp at Exit 1B ahead. Lake Forest Boulevard travels east-west between the Lake Forest and New Orleans East communities. These communities receive heavy damage from Hurricane Katrina and are vastly abandoned as of June 2006. Photo taken 06/10/06. Southbound at the Exit 1B diamond interchange with Lake Forest Boulevard. Interstate 510 & Louisiana 47 travel a viaduct between the northern terminus and Lake Forest Boulevard. Lake Forest Boulevard ends at Michoud Boulevard to the east and intersects Bullard Avenue to the west. Photo taken 06/10/06. A frontage road system accompanies Interstate 510 & Louisiana 47 southward from Interstate 10 to U.S. 90 (Chef Menteur Highway). The companion roads are signed as Paris Road and represent portions of the original Louisiana 47 alignment. Pictured here is the 0.50-mile overhead for Exit 2A and the Dwyer Road overpass. Photo taken 06/10/06. Southbound reassurance markers posted for Interstate 510 & Louisiana 47 ahead of the Dwyer Road overpass. Dwyer Road links the Paris Road frontage roads with Bullard Avenue to the west. Photo taken 06/10/06. The right-hand lane defaults onto the Exit 2A off-ramp for U.S. 90 (Chef Menteur Highway). The Chef Menteur Highway comprises a four-lane surface arterial through Michoud and Lake Forest in eastern New Orleans. U.S. 90 follows the Chef Menteur Highway west from the Rigolets to the Gentilly neighborhood of central New Orleans. Photo taken 06/10/06. A six-ramp partial-cloverleaf interchange joins Interstate 510 & Louisiana 47 with U.S. 90 (Chef Menteur Highway) at Exit 2A. U.S. 90 travels west 4.3 miles to meet Interstate 10 (Exit 249B) ahead of its draw bridge over the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal. Eastward the federal highway meets U.S. 11 in 6.3 miles en route to Venetian Isles. Photo taken 06/10/06. Interstate 510 & Louisiana 47 continue south a short distance to Exit 2C for Almonaster Boulevard and Old Gentilly Road. The Exit 2C diamond interchange lies just north of the Louisiana 47 Intracoastal Waterway Bridge. Paris Road occupies the western frontage between U.S. 90 (Chef Menteur Highway) and Almonaster Boulevard. Photo taken 06/10/06. Exit 2C serves the NASA Michoud facility located to the east along Old Gentilly Road. Old Gentilly Road parallels Almonaster Boulevard and the CSX Railroad line east from Jourdan Road near Interstate 10 to Michoud and U.S. 90 (Chef Menteur Highway). The roadway represents the original alignment of U.S. 90. Photo taken 06/10/06. Interstate 510 draws to a close at the Exit 2C ramp departure to Almonaster Boulevard. Almonaster Boulevard travels west from its split with Old Gentilly Road at the NASA Michoud facility through industrial areas of Lake Forest to the Inner Harbor Navigational Canal and Gentilly of mid-New Orleans. :Louisiana 47 continues southward across the Intracoastal Waterway bridge along Paris Road to Chalmette and junction Louisiana 39 and 46.Photo taken 06/10/06. Page Updated June 24, 2006.