Bridge City

The Huey P. Long Bridge runs steel across the Mississippi, and the neighborhood at the foot of its West Bank approach took the bridge's name. Bridge City sits between Westwego and Avondale, historically a Black and Creole working-class community, one of the most culturally distinct neighborhoods on the West Bank. Since 1974, the annual Bridge City Gumbo Festival has drawn approximately 100,000 visitors. Gumbo cook-offs, live music, and carnival rides fill the grounds. A festival that's run for fifty years in a working neighborhood, pulling six figures in attendance, is a festival that belongs to the people who live there. You go for the gumbo and the fact that this many people keep coming back.