Lake Pontchartrain - Northshore

Northshore

North of Lake Pontchartrain is an area called the North Shore or Northshore or the Northlake area. It is composed of cities such as Mandeville, Covington, Abita Springs, Madisonville, Lacombe, Slidell in Saint Tammany Parish; Ponchatoula, Hammond, and Amite in Tangipahoa Parish; and Franklinton and Bogalusa in Washington Parish. These Northshore parishes form the eastern Florida Parishes. This landscape here is mostly uplands that were once dominated by long leaf pine savannas and interrupted by occasional large rivers. The savannas were maintained by regular fires caused by lightning, and produced the distinctive fauna and flora of this region.

The Southshore areas, instead of being designated by that name, are more likely to be referred to as either "Eastbank" or "Westbank" depending on their position with respect to the general direction of flow of the Mississippi River. Lake Ponchartrain forms the northern boundary of the city of New Orleans, which is coterminous with Orleans Parish, and its two largest suburbs Metairie and Kenner, as well as the northern boundary of Jefferson Parish and Saint Charles Parish and much of the northern and eastern boundaries of Saint John the Baptist Parish.