Paddling near Shreveport, LA

Seat of Caddo Parish in northwest Louisiana, Shreveport and neighboring Bossier City sit at the meeting of the Red River and a dense web of cypress-lined lakes, bayous, and WMA waters. Paddlers reach flatwater sloughs and marked canoe trails within 30–90 minutes, anchored by Caddo Lake, a 25,400-acre natural lake on the Texas border laced with over 50 miles of marked trails through bald cypress.