With its swampy waterways and gnarled oak trees dripping in Spanish moss, the 1,300-acre City Park in New Orleans, Louisiana, is one green space we never get tired of exploring. Pack a picnic, rent a kayak or canoe, tour the excellent New Orleans Museum of Art and adjacent Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, or just cram your maw full of hot, sugary beignets from Morning Call Café. This is a place you’ll want to revisit again and again.

1 Palm Dr., New Orleans, LA; 504-482-4888.