Tour the Towns

Big Mama’s Antiques and Restorations

Big Mama’s Antiques and Restorations sells industrial materials, salvage materials and electric offerings. They specialize in African American historical artifacts and have been featured on the Antiques Road Show and in the Antique Trader Magazine. Store hours are Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. or daily by appointment.

6403 Dogwood St., Hosston, LA 71043
318-573-2127

Robert L. Nance Park

Robert L. Nance Park features a boat ramp, fishing pier, grills, paved parking, family size picnic tables, playground equipment, and more.

14770 Odom Rd., Hosston, LA 71043
318-929-2806

Skydive Louisiana

Skydive Louisiana is a USPA certified Training Center Dropzone. The experienced staff members offer tandem jumps, sports jumps, paragliding and more for one of the most memorable lifetime achievements.

5266 Gilliam Airport Road, Gilliam
318-464-5867

Main Street Restaurant

Main Street Restaurant in Gilliam features “country cooking” favorites like chicken fried steak as well as fresh Gulf seafood options including fried oysters, boiled shrimp and more. Open 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday-Tuesday; 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Wednesday-Thursday; and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday-Saturday.

12807 Main St., Gilliam, LA 71029
318-296-4400

Red River Crossroads Museum

See how the early settlers of the surrounding rural communities lived through memorabilia and pictures. Located in Shreve Memorial Library branch in Gilliam, the library’s hours are by appointment only.

12797 Main St., Gilliam, LA 71029
318-296-4303

Sunflower Trail and Festival

View the beautiful, blooming sunflowers at Sunflower Trail and Festival along Hwy 3049 in Gilliam. Afterwards enjoy crafts, entertainment, food, and family fun at the festival.

LA-3049., Gilliam, LA 71029
318-296-4303

Lynn Plantation Events

Established in 1914, the Lynn Plantation Home is a popular rented venue space on spacious, historic plantation lands. Renters can schedule weddings, reunions, romantic dinners, and more.

11569 Hwy 3049., Belcher, LA 71004
318-780-5901

D&I General Store

D&I General Store is your one-stop-shop for homemade country cuisine, convenience items and other merchandise.

312 Caddo St., Belcher, LA 71004
318-378-4217

Allen’s Guide and Tour Service

Allen’s Guide and Tour Service offers half day and full day fishing excursions on Caddo Lake. Fishing Guide Mark Allen specializes in largemouth bass fishing and is a multi-FLW/BFL tournament winner.  Narrated tours of the lake are also available. Excursions by appointment only.

9691 Pelican Lodge Rd., Vivian, LA 71082
903-530-0611

Monterey Country Club

Established in 1957, Monterey Country Club is a 9-hole golf course. It is open to the public.

114 Monterey Country Club Rd., Vivian, LA 71082
318-375-3043

Rascals Restaurant

Rascals Restaurant is located in downtown Vivian and serves the most popular soul food items from a mini buffet. Cash only.

117 W Louisiana Ave., Vivian, LA 71082
318-375-5292

Country Inn Motel

This motel accomodates overnight and extended stays with amenities such as Wi-Fi connection, cable, RV parking, and more.

1032 S Pine St., Vivian, LA 71082
318-375-4730

Café 180 to GO

Café 180 to GO is an American restaurant serving everthing from philly cheesesteaks, burgers and salads to smothered chicken, sandwiches and cornbread.

308 South Pine St., Vivian, LA 71082
318-375-2600

Chavo’s Mexican Restaurant

Chavo’s Mexican Restaurant thrives on perfecting the balance between traditional and authentic Mexican food that are made from scratch. 

1032 S Pine St., Vivian, LA 71082
318-375-3753

Vivian Black History Festival and Parade

Celebrate at Vivian’s Annual Black History Festival and Parade. Visit historical sites like the Vivian Railroad Station Museum and more. Enjoy great music, food, family fun, and good ole Southern hospitality. Don’t miss the  “Shop Til U Drop” vendors Expo. This festival is held the 3rd Saturday in February each year.

Vivian, LA 71082
318-935-0376

Louisiana Redbud Festival

Families looking for fun should check out Louisiana Redbud Festival’s all-day events including music on the square, a parade, food, and arts and crafts booths.

Vivian Townsquare, 100 Front Street, Vivian

Country Christmas Festival

Celebrate Christmas in the country. This annual Country Christmas Festival promises to entertain guests with delicious food, entertainment, crafts, and more.

100 Front St., Vivian, LA 71082
318-375-5300

Ark-La-Tex Speedway

Dirt track races are held seasonally on this quarter-mile, semi-banked clay oval track.

13035 Boyter Ln., Vivian, LA 71082
318-375-3470

Earl G. Williamson Park

Earl G. Williamson Park, a 40-acre park, features a public boat ramp, a 450-foot fishing pier, paved parking areas, restrooms with showers, RV camper hook-ups, areas for tent camping, extensive picnic facilities, two playgrounds, volleyball nets, a baseball field, tennis courts, and a swimming area.

11425 LA Hwy. 1., Oil City, LA 71061
318-995-7139

Gusher Days Festival

Gusher Days Festival celebrates the north Caddo Parish oil industry with an archery tournament, fishing tournament, music, food, and entertainment.

11411 LA-1., Oil City, LA 71061
318-470-3446

Louisiana State Oil & Gas Museum

Learn how the discovery of oil shaped the history of Caddo Parish through photographs, films, a shot gun house, and life-size dioramas at Louisiana State Oil & Gas Museum.

200 S Land Ave., Oil City, LA 71061
318-995-6845

Restor-A-Book

Restor-A-Book handles a wide variety of restoration and binding work including Bibles, books, genealogy papers, church hymnals, bulletins, newspapers, tabloids and much more.

126 South Land Ave., Oil City, LA 71061
318-995-6800

Christmas on Caddo Fireworks Festival

Christmas on Caddo Fireworks Festival has been bringing Christmas cheer to the people of north Louisiana for nearly three decades. The all-day affair includes the presentation of Miss Christmas on Caddo pageant winner, live band, concessions, clowns, Santa, and fireworks over Caddo Lake.

100 Front St., Vivian, LA 71082
318-631-0182

La Herradura Mexican Restaurant

La Herradura cooks up fresh Mexican and seafood including fajitas, fish, enchiladas, nachos, taco salad, and more. Open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday-Sunday.

326 Hwy. 1., Oil City, LA 71061
318-995-8008

Historic Caddo Lake Drawbridge

In 1914, as modes of transportation progressed, the Historic Caddo Lake Drawbridge in Mooringsport was built to replace the ferry. This vehicular bridge illustrates the unique “Vertical Lift” design which allows the entire center span to lift to allow tall oil equipment to pass through, especially Gulf Oil Company’s pile driver which was used for the first off-shore oil drilling.  This 100-plus-year-old landmark is the last surviving Waddell vertical-lift bridge in Louisiana and is open to the public as a pedestrian walkway. It has been listed on National Register of Historic Places since 1996.

500 N Croom St., Mooringsport, LA 71060
318-929-2806

Mooringsport Cypress Festival

The Mooringsport Cypress Festival features live entertainment, arts and crafts, food eating contests, children’s activities, parade, and more.

Higgins St., Mooringsport, LA 71060
318-469-6282

Morell Dairy Farm

The Morell Dairy Farm is a premier dairy farm and creamery located on the cusp of Blanchard and Mooringsport along the Boom or Bust Byway. With just a 25-minute drive from downtown Shreveport, you’ll have the creamiest milk, the richest chocolate milk, and the smoothest butter you’ll ever taste.

4743 LA-169, Mooringsport, LA 71060
318-309-4046

Longwood General Store

Longwood General Store is a country store that features a small dining room and kitchen serving Southern classics like chicken fried steak and over-sized hamburgers. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, this restaurant is well-known for steaks. The restaurant serves steaks on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays only. Open 24 hours a day, Tuesday-Saturday and 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., Sunday-Monday.

3502 Hwy. 169., Mooringsport, LA 71060
318-929-2231

Saige Acres Flower Farm

Saige Acres Flower Farm allows visitors to pick pumpkins, orchestrate photoshoots, pick sunflowers, purchase flower arrangements, and more.

10200 Blanchard Furrh Road, Mooringsport, LA 71060
318-525-6981

Horace M. Downs Park

Horace M. Downs Park sits on 8.5 acres of land that features the nearby Caddo Lake Dam, picnic tables, grills, and more for family fun.

8571 Crouch Dam Rd., Mooringsport, LA 71060
318-929-2806

Caddo Lake Dam

Completed in June 1971, the Caddo Lake Dam was constructed as a modificatin to provide for navigation, water supply, recreation, commercial fishing, and flood control. Picnic facilities are available at nearby Horace M. Downs Park.

C&J RV Park LLC

C&J RV Park LLC has 26 RV sites and showers.

6941 LA-1., Mooringsport, LA 71060
318-929-3193

By The Lake Park

By the Lake Park is a small park sitting on a bluff that overlooks Caddo Lake, provides picnic tables, portable toilet, pier and boat launching facilities. It is used primarily by fishermen and for family picnics. Located near the Historic Caddo Lake Drawbridge.

100 N Croom St., Mooringsport, LA 71060

Caddo Lake

Caddo Lake is a 25,400-acre lake and wetland located on the border between Texas and Louisiana. It is the largest natural fresh water lake in the South.

11425 Hwy. 1 North., Oil City, LA 71061
318-995-7139

Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter Gravesite

Huddie Ledbetter, better known to the music world as “Lead Belly” was from Mooringsport, LA and was an accomplished musician. He could play the guitar, the accordion, mandolin and piano. His music still has a great influence on some of the greatest artists of today.

10395 Blanchard-Latex Rd., Mooringsport, LA 71060

Country Haven RV Park

Country Haven RV Park is a quiet, small RV park that creates a relaxed setting with laundry accomodations, showers, a fishing pond, and more.

8095 Old Mooringsport Rd., Shreveport, LA 71107
318-469-6445

Ryan Farms Produce

Although Ryan Farms Produce is technically located in Shreveport, it housed outside of city limits near Dixie, LA. This small family-owned grocery market is one of the best kept secrets on the Boom or Bust Byway. You can stop by Ryan Farms Produce to get juicy fruits, flavorful veggies, and more Monday-Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon.

8172 Dixie Shreveport Rd., Shreveport, LA
318-425-3004

Northwood Hills Country Club

Northwood Hills offers numerous opportunities for competitive or social play for golfers of all ages and abilities. From Men’s and Women’s league play to junior golf, development programs, golf clinics, and tournaments, our programs are designed to help golfers enhance their skills while building friendships and connecting with others who share their interest in the game.

5000 Northwood Hills Dr., Shreveport, LA 71107
318-929-2322

Poke Salad Festival

The Poke Salad Festival kicks off with a $1,000 treasure hunt, carnival, food, children’s activities, and live entertainment.

Pinehill Rd., Blanchard, LA 71009
318-309-2647

Hickory House Antiques and Collectibles

Hickory House Antiques and Collectibles is a friendly antiques and collectibles dealer mall. They have a wide variety of products from fine antiques to modern-day crafted items, truly something for everyone! Follow them on Instagram @hickory.house

306 W Mary Lee St, Plain Dealing, LA 71064

(318) 326-4838

Rita Sanders Keoun Memorial Library

The Rita Sanders Keoun Memorial Bossier Parish Library is more than just a library to the Plain Dealing community. It also promotes the historical aspects of the community through engaging exhibits.

208 E Mary Lee Ave, Plain Dealing, LA 71064

(318) 326-4233

Jayroe’s Hardware & Garden

Shop and experience a wonderful plant nursery that offers garden accessories and hardware items. It’s open 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

207 5th St, Benton, LA 71006

(318) 965-0956

Cypress-Black Bayou Park & Recreation Area

Cypress Black Bayou is a full-service recreation area that includes a marina, swimming, camping, cabins, fishing piers, a zoo, and much more. Cypress Black Bayou has a meeting room that holds up to 50 people if a small group is looking for a retreat or family reunion. To book a picnic shelter rental email ccarroll@cypressblackbayou.com or call 318-965-2289.

135 Cypress Park Dr, Benton, LA 71006

318-965-2289

AmJenn’s Soups & Scoops

AmJenn’s serves soups, burgers, fries, sandwiches, and lots of different ice cream treats! Now serving a full sit down breakfast.

218 N. Main Street, Springhill, LA 71075
318-539-2284

Bayou Dorcheat

If calm-water canoeing interests you, beautiful Bayou Dorcheat winds its way through the entire length of Webster Parish. Once a major thoroughfare for paddleboats and steamships. Dorcheat offers scenic fishing, boating and watersport opportunities. Sportsmen can access the bayou from a number of locations, including the neighboring village of Dixie Inn.

Dorcheat Street, Minden, LA 71055

Caney Lake

Kisatchie National Forest is the only national forest in Louisiana and spans 604,000 acres consisting mostly of bayous with bald cypress groves and old growth pine. Beautiful Caney Lakes just north of Minden are a part of the Kisatchie National Forest. The Caney Lakes Recreation Complex has a variety of day-use areas to choose from. The upper and lower lakes are perfect for enjoying a hike on the Sugar Cane National Recreation Trail, swimming at the day-use swim beach, playing volleyball, fishing from the shore, or picnicking at the vast selection of picnic facilities. Beaver Dam Campground is situated on the shores of Upper Caney Lake in the Caney Lakes Recreation Complex. The campground is located in a beautiful setting among woods, lakes and hills. Campsites come with electric and water hookups. The group picnic area accommodates up to 200 guests while each campsite fits up to eight campers. A sanitary dump station, drinking water and flush toilets are provided.

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1163 Par Road 116, Minden, LA 71055
318-927-2061

Chania Greek Café (pronounced hahn-yah)

Chania is the only Greek restaurant in Webster Parish. Made with fresh ingredients and savory flavors, Chania offers everything from hummus to roasted lamb. Stop in for weekly lunch specials.

208 1st Street, Springhill, LA 71075
318-539-3356

Chavo’s Mexican Restaurant

Chavo’s specializes in finding a balance between traditional and typical Mexican food without compromising flavor neither quality. Customers particularly value the very accurate combination of accessible prices and the portions served. Special effort is made in maintaining a family environment inside and out side the premises for  customer comfort.

1912 S Arkansas Street, Springhill, LA 71075
318-539-2827

Germantown Colony Museum

History is an important part of the present in Webster Parish, where we value our heritage and vow to preserve the things that have made us who we are. Germantown Colony and Museum is one of three sites founded by the Utopian Movement or Harmonist Society in the 19th Century. In 1835, a group from the Economy, Pennsylvania site, under the leadership of “Countess von Leon”, established a colony near Minden. The colony operated on a communal basis for 37 years, finally dispersing in 1871. Of the three Harmony Society Colonies, Germantown was the most successful. In 1979, it was placed on the official list of the Nation’s Cultural Resources Worthy of Preservation by the U.S. Department of Interior. The Germantown Colony and Museum is located 7 miles northeast of Minden on Germantown Road.

The museum is open Thursday – Saturday from 10a – 4p. Admission is free. For information, call 318-377-6061

120 Museum Rd., Minden, LA 71055
318-377-6061

Forests and Fields

Farms prospered on fertile land along the Red River. Cotton, for example, grew well there. Plantations and well-placed gins, thanks to the labor of hundreds of field hands and then sharecroppers, produced thousands of bales of cotton.

Closer to Sarepta, in what is still appropriately referred to as the Piney Woods, it was the combination of forests and flowing water that attracted the first of several generations of loggers. Axes and saw blades, in roughened hands, shaped and continue to reshape regional landscapes, triggering boom and bust cycles all too familiar to local residents.

Sawmills, like their agricultural cousin, the cotton gin, became centers of rural commerce and employment, growing larger and more mechanized with the passage of time. Tall, straight pines emerged from the mills as lumber for oil derricks, railroad ties, siding for boomtown homes, paper and boxes.

LumberJack Grill

Lumberjack Grill provides burgers, country home cooked meals, salad bar and desserts with a nice family atmosphere for dining in or take outs.

26000 US-371, Sarepta, LA
318-994-2018

Main to Main Trade Days

Main to Main Trade Days is a shopping experience that reaches over 50 miles. The route goes from downtown Springhill on Main Street, then travels south to Cullen’s Main Street, crosses over to US Highway 371 and continues south into Sarepta, Cotton Valley and Dixie Inn, the route turns left on US Highway 80 and goes into downtown Minden. From there shoppers are directed back onto Highway 371 to Sibley and the parish line. The event  includes store specials, antique sales, flea markets, garage sales, food vendors, bake sales, church bazaars, etc. This event is held held rain or shine.

Muddy Bottoms ATV Park

Muddy Bottoms ATV & Recreation Park was created to provide the surrounding community with a recreational escape not far from where they live and work. Our focus is to appeal to people of all ages. With a very scenic piece of property, extensive research, and vision we began to build arguably the finest ATV and recreation park in the country, offering the perfect outdoor experience.Whether you are looking for the full outdoor experience of pitching tents, building campfires and riding through the mud, or you want to enjoy all that the outdoors has to offer and then wash off and relax in a bed, Muddy Bottoms has it all.

100 Muddy Bottoms Drive, Sarepta, LA 71071

Mullins RV Park

Are you an RVer? This RV park offers 30 spaces with pull through hook-up, 30 or 50 amp service, laundry room, 7-acre stocked pond for fishing and a gazebo near the pond.

5970 Highway 2, Sarepta, LA 71071
318-847-4832

Peaches Porch

Enjoy daily lunch specials like smoked sirloin chops, chicken dressing and hamburger steaks. This great Southern eatery has down home dishes you will love. The hamburgers are large and juicy, too.

557 South Main Street, Springhill, LA 71075
318-539-3031

Sikes Ferry Boat Ramp

Launch your fishing boat, canoe or kayak at Sikes Ferry Boat Ramp to explore the exquisite nature of Webster Parish.

Hwy 2 to Fire Tower Road, Shongaloo, LA

Springhill Rodeo

The Springhill Rodeo is the longest running rodeo in the state of Louisiana. The rodeo features team roping, barrel racing, bull riding and more!

1101 Machen Drive, Springhill, LA 71075

The Butler House Bistro

The Butler House Bistro is located in the Historical Butler House in Springhill! The Bistro is here to give an unique dining experience unlike any other.

206 Butler Street, Springhill, LA 71075
318-539-2282

The Lumberjack Festival

Arts & Craft vendors, food vendors, free entertainment, a parade, car show, ice cream eating contest, firefighter competition, and timber sports show.

301 W. Church Street, Springhill, LA 71075

The Spring Theater

The Spring Theater is a family friendly environment offering movie show times from 7:00 PM to 10:30  PM.

214 N Main Street, Springhill, LA 71075