Avoyelles Parish is located in the center of Central Louisiana, surrounded with additional parishes (counties) offering a variety of tourist opportunities, historic sites, attractions, wonderful food venues and entertainment. Stay with us and venture for a day trip to . . . RAPIDES PARISH . . . Alexandria/Pineville CVB is thirty minutes north of Avoyelles. Visit http://www.louisinafromhere.com for a stop on Red River where cultural and family activities abound . Enjoy dance, theater, museums, music, history, ballgames or the Alexandria Zoological Park. See Kent Plantation House, c.1800, Alexandria Museum of Art, River Oaks Square Arts Center,Tree House Children's Museum, Arna Bontemps Museum,Southern Forest Heritage Museum or Pineville Old Town Hall Museum and Louisiana Maneuvers and Military Museum at Camp Beauregard. Fine restaurants and rounds of golf await you along with water sports on the Red River. NATCHITOCHES PARISH . . . Natchitoches CVB located and hour and fifteen minutes north of Avoyelles Parish on I-49N. See www.Natchitoces.net to visit the oldest permanent settlement in The Louisiana Purchase Territory(1714) and home to the famous City of Lights festival at Christmas and the 600,000-acre Kisatchie National Forest. Tour Fort St. Jean Baptiste, Bayou Pierre Alligator Park, or the Cane River National Heritage Area: Magnolia, Melrose, and Oakland Plantations and the Kate Chopin House. Natchitoches, where Steel Magnolia was filmed and Oprah Winfrey made a surprise visit just because "Natchitoches loves Oprah", and the Natchitoches Meat Pie is a delicacy. CONCORDIA PARISH . . . Concordia Tourist Commission, (318)336-5633, situated along the Mississippi River, Concordia Parish offers a cornucopia of attractions and scenic beauty. Create memories while enjoying down-home hospitality. See Cotton, Then and Now at an historical and ultra-modern 1800-acre working plantation located sixty minutes from Avoyelles Parish, Frogmore Cotton Plantation, www.frogmoreplantation.com, conducts comprehensive guided tours of a plantation system and slave culture. Visit the Delta Music Museum in Ferriday, minutes from Natchez, MS, and enjoy the stories of three famous cousins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Mickey Gilley, and Jimmy Swaggart. ALLEN PARISH . . . Allen Parish Tourist Commission, www.allenparish.com, is an hours drive from Avoyelles Parish on Hwy 165 South. Experience culture, food and festival fun. Visit Coushatta Casino Resort, go canoeing, see trottingbred races, parks, RV parks, and wonderful hunting and fishing. See Les Grandes Lumieres at Christmas or experience the Mardi Gras Runs and Trade Days along with Flea Markets and more. VERNON PARISH . . . Vernon Parish TC, vernontourism@bellsouth.net, located one hour from Avoyelles on Hwy 28 W, is the Wildflower Capital of Louisiana. Visit historic sites, the Museum of West Louisiana, stroll through the National Register Historic District on 3rd street, and view the classical revival 1910 Vernon Parish Courthouse. See Vernon and Anacoco Lakes,(minutes away from Toledo Bend Kisatchie National Forest, and the golf courses. All of this is Vernon Parish . . .Call it Home. EVANGELINE PARISH . . . Evangeline Parish TC, www.evangelinetourism.com, is just about one hour from Avoyelles Parish. Carved out of the old Parish of St. Landry, Evangeline Parish is host to many events, places of interest and activities, including Chicot State Park, with the State of Louisiana state park system. ST. LANDRY PARISH . . . St. Landry http://www.cajuntravel.com, Parish, located 40 minutes south of Avoyelles Parish on I-49S. www.cajuntravel.com featuring racetrack, casino, Cajun prairie, site of a miracle, scenic byway and a haunted plantation. See why St. Landry is the Atchafalaya gateway and Zydeco capital and is "Gumbo for your Soul". LASALLE PARISH . . . CATAHOULA PARISH . . .

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