Bikeways & Trails

Bikeways and Trails

Parish Plan Documents

Adoption of Plan

St. Bernard Parish adopted its latest Bikeway and Pedestrian Plan on June 20, 2017.

Parish Plan Highlights

  • Identifies a 152-mile network of Regional Bikeways that link together communities  within St. Bernard and St. Bernard Parish to its neighboring parishes.
  • The Regional Network includes the 14-mile Mississippi River Trail, the 26-mile 40 Arpent Trail, and 15 miles of other regional bikeways that will link people to the major regional trails.
  • The Local Network includes 97 miles of on-street bikeways that will help bicyclists reach local destinations such as employment sites, shopping areas, schools, transit routes, and parks.
  •  Planned bikeways include signed bicycle routes, marked shared lanes, bicycle lanes, neighborhood greenways, shoulder routes, and multi-use trails. All are designed to make it safer for people to travel by bicycle.
  • The new plan incorporates the Parish’s 2016 Complete Streets Policy which identifies 47-miles of sidewalks to be installed or improved and 56 specific pedestrian crossing improvement projects.


  1. APA Award

    PARISH RECEIVES STATE PLANNING EXCELLENCE AWARD

    The Louisiana Chapter of the American Planning Association awarded St. Bernard Parish Government their Planning Excellence Award for Plan Implementation at their annual conference in New Orleans. Read on...

PLAN IMPLEMENTATION - News and updates

PLAN IMPLEMENTATION STATUS REPORT

June 2023 Plan Summary and Implementation Status Report (PDF)

As of December, 2022, the parish has completed approximately 93 miles of bikeways including trails, bicycle lanes (including St. Bernard Hwy by DOTD), marked shared lanes, bicycle routes and shoulder bikeways.

  1. APA Award

    PARISH RECEIVES STATE PLANNING EXCELLENCE AWARD

    The Louisiana Chapter of the American Planning Association awarded St. Bernard Parish Government their Planning Excellence Award for Plan Implementation at their annual conference in New Orleans. Read on...
  2. Image of what trail will look like

    MISSISSIPPI RIVER TRAIL PHASE I&II NEARS COMPLETION

    Parish President Guy McInnis reported construction is nearing completion on the first phases of the St. Bernard Parish Mississippi River Trail. Constructed is by Barber Brothers Contracting. Read on...
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    FORTY ARPENT TRAIL FROM ARABI TO VIOLET BEGINS CONSTRUCTION

    The Parish is currently constructing the first phase of the Forty Arpent Trail that will extend approximately 8 miles from Arabi (Heights Park located at 1914 Alexander Avenue) east to Guerra Drive in Violet. Read on...
  4. Trail Construction from Docville

    MISSISSIPPI TRAIL PHASE III TRAILHEADS AND ST. BERNARD STATE PARK CONNECTOR

    The Parish is constructing a connector trail from the Mississippi River levee top trail to the entrance to St. Bernard State Park. Read on...
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