Bossier Parish offers a variety of
attractions. Linked together by the nation's largest neon-lit bridge,
Shreveport and Bossier City offer abundant shopping, accommodations
and fabulous specialty foods such as Tex-Mex, Cajun, French, Italian
and Oriental.
If fast-paced activity is your style, race forward to Louisiana Downs,
the area's premier thoroughbred racetrack or "roll on the Red River"
with 3 dockside riverboat casinos.
For family fun, a trip to Water Town USA is a must. You can also enjoy
the Gardens of the American Rose Center and the Barnwell Garden and
Art Center. And don't forget annual events like the Mardi Gras, July
4th, Christmas and others.
Downtown Benton (Restoration Square) features the circa 1845 Hughes
House, the 1884 Heath Log Cabin, a circa 1900 one-room schoolhouse and
Horseshoe cabin.
This is also the home of Barksdale Air Force Base, the 7th largest air
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The 8th Air Force Museum
offers a WW II briefing room theater, 6 galleries, 25
aircraft and vehicles and an aviation gift shop plus
hundreds of annual festivals across the state.
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