While driving up River Rd (the road along the river on the east bank) you can drive through the Bonne Carre Spillway. There are a few parking places where you can stop and get out and look over the Spillway and out to the grand Mississippi river. You may also drive through the actual spillway where there is a spot to fly radio controlled airplanes, with a picnic table and a port-o-let.

This is the flood gate that was built to protect New Orleans when the Mississippi River gets too high. They open the gates to divert the water from being too high when it reaches New Orleans, thus saving the city from river flooding.