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Lake Charles Visitors

It's casino gaming and the great outdoors, culinary delights, rhythm and blues that make Louisiana travel exciting. It's good company and quiet reflections, historical sites and luxurious hotels and accommodations. It's a sub-tropical climate and Southern hospitality.

Southwest Louisiana is named the "Festival Capital" of Louisiana with over 75 annual festivals from the glittering splendor of Mardi Gras to the swashbuckling days of the Contraband Days Pirate Festival. There is something going on nearly every weekend.

For the perfect family trip, group tour, reunion or full-fledged convention, it's Southwest Louisiana and its six cities:

Click Here for a Map of Lake Charles and Calcasieu Parish

Moving to Southwest Louisiana? Check out the Home Finder's Guide!

Also, be sure to visit http://www.artsandhumanitiesswla.org/.

Whether your next gathering is for business or pleasure, you'll enjoy the wide range of opportunities that Southwest Louisiana tourism has to offer. Your event can only be enhanced by the natural splendor of our region, innumerable recreational activities, a thriving arts community and a quality lifestyle that is unsurpassed.

Watch the Video below to find out what NBC's TODAY Show and Scholastic Parent & Child Magazine had to say about Southwest Louisiana.

So what are you waiting for? Come experience Southwest Louisiana travel, where we laissez les bons temps rouler—let the good times roll!