Six Flags New Orleans, which shut shop after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, remains abandoned after a lengthy period bogged down in production hell. The amusement park was submerged under seven feet of rain and seawater after the levee broke and flooded much of Eastern New Orleans. It took a month for the water to drain.
Stuffed toy mascots and unopened carnival food still litter the walkways while roller-coasters slowly crumble into themselves. A number of mid-sized alligators have relocated to the park’s interior lake and pit-vipers have taken up nest in the vast underbrush that has grown well into the grounds.
The only sign of life left in the park is the extensive graffiti and discarded beer bottles yet to be bleached out by the Louisiana sun. The odd film crew can be seen there, taking advantage of the location’s obvious cinematic and eerie qualities. On this particular visit, a teaser trailer for ‘Go-go Girls of the Apocalypse’ was in mid-shoot.
