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Following the vast devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the Trust for Public Land initiated the rebuilding of City Park with WRT's design for Big Lake. Big Lake is a 26-acre corner of the 1,300-acre historic park. The shallow lake was hand dug in 1898 in the shape of Lake Pontchartrain. The site has served as part of the South Golf Course since 1910. WRT's 2018 City Park Vision Plan called for it to be open for public use.
The plan integrates a multi-use trail around the lake with picnic groves, festival grounds, a water plaza, a boat dock, fishing piers, and the expansion of the New Orleans Museum of Art. The lake topography will be sculpted for the introduction of native marsh, Louisiana iris, and upland freshwater habitat—while preserving its historic shape.
