Howze Beach: I-10 Twin Spans at Northshore
Few places in Louisiana have a history as closely tied to the waters of Lake Pontchartrain as Howze Beach. Set on the lake’s northern side in St. Tammany Parish, this small locality belongs to the low, wooded coastal plain between New Orleans and the Mississippi state line. Lake Pontchartrain is a brackish estuary connected to the Gulf of Mexico through the Rigolets and Chef Menteur Pass, and its shoreline has long influenced settlement, fishing and transport in southeastern Louisiana. The lake was named for Louis Phélypeaux, comte de Pontchartrain, a minister to Louis XIV. Interstate 10 runs through the surrounding corridor, linking the New Orleans area with Mississippi’s Gulf Coast routes.
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The landscape around Howze Beach is a low-lying, humid Gulf Coast shoreline beside Lake Pontchartrain, and it has shaped local settlement and livelihoods. This broad, shallow lake is a brackish estuary, linked to the Gulf of Mexico through the Rigolets and other tidal passages. Howze Beach lies on Louisiana’s Northshore, the part of the greater New Orleans area that extends along the lake’s northern edge. Lake Pontchartrain was named in 1699 for Louis Phélypeaux, Comte de Pontchartrain, a minister to Louis XIV. Browse related webcams around Lake Pontchartrain and Louisiana’s Northshore to gain a broader sense of the region.
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