How to get your car out of impound in Uptown

If the City towed your car in {c}, call (504) 658-8100 to confirm where it is stored. City impound payments go to 400 N. Claiborne Ave, even if the car was moved to Almonaster. Confirm the pickup location and same-day hours before traveling.

St. Charles Ave is the Krewe of Rex's route and dozens of other parades' core path, so the city posts hard tow-away zones for the length of Carnival season, and anything left on the route gets hauled to a city lot. Uptown and Garden District tows, including anything cleared off that parade route, follow the City of New Orleans' fee schedule, a $228.75 minimum for Light Duty. Tulane and Loyola student lockouts and citations, narrow oak-canopied side streets that trap double-parked delivery trucks, and streetcar-clearance enforcement along St. Charles add steady volume year-round. The Claiborne Avenue Auto Pound, 400 N. Claiborne Ave, handles release 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily; call (504) 658-8100 first to confirm whether the city towed the car. Riverfront and natural-levee ground through here sits higher than most of the city and fared comparatively well in the Katrina flooding, though blocks nearer Claiborne Ave flooded worse. The neighborhood runs from the 19th-century mansions of the Garden District and Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 to Audubon Park, with Magazine St as its commercial spine and Carrollton Ave forming the back boundary.

Uptown runs from the Mississippi River bend through the Garden District's 19th-century mansion blocks to Freret St and the edge of Central City, with St. Charles Ave as the spine. St. Charles is the core route for the Krewe of Rex and dozens of other Carnival parades, so the city posts hard tow-away zones for the length of the season, leave a car on the route during a parade and it's getting hauled to a city lot, no exceptions. Tulane and Loyola sit right off St. Charles too, and student lockouts, expired-tag tows, and campus-lot calls run steady all school year. The narrow, oak-canopied side streets off Magazine St trap double-parked delivery trucks daily, and the streetcar line running the length of St. Charles means clearance enforcement is a year-round concern, not just a Carnival one. Higher, natural-levee ground here fared better than most of the city during Katrina, so our flood calls in Uptown run lighter than in the Core's lower blocks, most jobs are routine breakdowns, lockouts, and parade-season tows. We cover Audubon Park, the Garden District, and the Tulane and Loyola campuses, with wheel-lift for routine calls and flatbed whenever a parade-route tow or a tight side street calls for it.