504 in a Day: One New Orleans Day That Isn't Bourbon Street — A Timed One-Day Itinerary with 13 Verified Stops, Real Hours & the $3 Streetcar Pass (Printable PDF)

You have one day in New Orleans. The internet hands you a list of twelve famous things with no clock, no closing times, and no warning that the bakery is shut on Tuesdays, the free museum is shut on Mondays, and the cathedral stops letting people in at 3:45 p.m. You find those things out standing at locked doors, and the one day is gone.

This guide is the day, run on a real clock. Start at 8:00 a.m. in the Bywater, end on Frenchmen Street after dark, and never set foot on Bourbon Street — because the better city was never on it.

The workmanship, up front: every hour, fare, and admission in this book was checked against the operator's own site or listing on November 10, 2026, and the source for each is printed on the last page — the RTA fares page for the $1.25 ride and $3 Jazzy Pass, the bakery's own site for its Tuesday–Wednesday closure, the cathedral's own site for its 3:45 p.m. last entry. Where a fact could not be verified, it was left out, not rounded into a guess. Food stops carry verified hours and no invented menu prices.

What's inside (16 pages, printable PDF):

• 11 timed blocks covering 13 places with verified addresses: Bywater Bakery (3624 Dauphine St), Crescent Park (2300 N. Peters St), the French Market (1008 N. Peters St), Café Du Monde (800 Decatur St), Jackson Square (701 Decatur St), St. Louis Cathedral (615 Pere Antoine Alley), the Historic New Orleans Collection (520 Royal St), NOMA and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden (1 Collins Diboll Circle), Café Du Monde City Park (56 Dreyfous Dr), Dat Dog (601 Frenchmen St), and the Spotted Cat + d.b.a. (623 & 618 Frenchmen St)
• A one-page day-at-a-glance table: start times, lengths, and the walk or streetcar leg between every stop
• A closed-day swap table for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday — the three days the headline route cannot run as written — with 2 replacement museums verified the same way
• 6 more verified places in the swap, food, and second-morning pages (19 named places with addresses in total), including Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 (1400 Washington Ave — reopened Oct 1, 2026, guided tours only via the Preservation Resource Center / Save Our Cemeteries, $30 adults) and Turkey and the Wolf (739 Jackson Ave)
• A knowable budget table: the day's fixed costs run from $3 (the Jazzy Pass alone — five stops are free) to $26 with NOMA admission for an out-of-state adult
• A drop list: the five cuts to make, in order, when the day runs long — and the three things never to cut

What this is / what this isn't:

• This is a walking-and-streetcar day for a visitor based in or near downtown. It is not a driving or parking guide, not a Mardi Gras or festival guide, and not a restaurant guide — food appears as four timed stops, not reviews.
• It deliberately excludes Bourbon Street. If Bourbon Street is the point of your trip, this book will not help you.
• Hours and prices were verified on November 10, 2026 and will drift; the sources page tells you exactly where to recheck each one in under a minute.

Who should NOT buy this: if you want a multi-day deep dive, a nightlife/bar-crawl guide, a haunted or ghost itinerary, or a plan built around a car, skip it — this is one specific, excellent day on foot. If you have exactly one day and want it spent like a local who checked the closing times, this is that day.

Price: $9 for a 16-page printable itinerary with 13 timed stops, 19 verified places with addresses, a closed-day swap table, a full budget table, and a drop list — three times the price of the $3 day pass it tells you to buy, for the day that pass was made for.

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