Shreveport is located 320 miles north of New Orleans and 192 miles east of Dallas in northwest Louisiana. It is a growing center of education, business, industry, and the arts. As such, Shreveport is the commercial and cultural focal point of the Ark-La-Tex, the geographic region formed by the conjunction of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Along with Bossier City, just across the Red River, the Shreveport metropolitan area has a population of more than 350,000. Shreveport is served by several airlines with convenient connections to all parts of the country, and is within driving distance of New Orleans, Dallas, Austin, Houston, Little Rock, Jackson, and several exceptional recreation areas.

Shreveport/Bossier offers a large variety of attractions, cultural activities, and festivals. Attractions include galleries and museums, performing arts, sporting events, riverboat casinos, thoroughbred racing at Louisiana Downs, shopping, music, entertainment, and night clubs. The mild climate of Shreveport/Bossier City offers ample opportunity to take advantage of the large number of excellent facilities for outdoor recreation. Area lakes, bayous, parks, and campsites offer outstanding fishing, swimming, and boating facilities, and tennis, softball, and golf are played year-round. Many local restaurants feature a variety of Louisiana Cajun and Creole foods, and regional seafood such as crawfish, shrimp, oysters, and Atchafalaya catfish. In addition, the area features a wide variety of international cuisines, including French, Italian, Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese.

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