Bourbon Street — Live Cam

This live camera looks down Bourbon Street, the legendary spine of the New Orleans French Quarter and one of the most famous party streets in the world. The view captures the wrought-iron balconies, glowing neon, and round-the-clock crowds that flow past the bars, jazz clubs, and daiquiri shops of the Vieux Carré — the oldest neighborhood in the city, dating to 1718. There is rarely a quiet moment here. Bourbon Street comes alive after dark, and the cam is liveliest in the evening and late night, when the music spills out of every doorway and the street fills wall to wall. New Orleans is on Central Time, five hours ahead of Hawaii. The wildest stretch of the year is Mardi Gras (Carnival season, peaking on Fat Tuesday in February or March), when costumed crowds and beads take over the Quarter, but Bourbon Street keeps its own rhythm every night of the year. The French Quarter around it holds Jackson Square, the Mississippi riverfront, Café du Monde, and the birthplace of jazz. Bourbon Street is the neon-lit, brass-soundtracked heart of America's most distinctive city.