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LOUISIANA’S

Audubon Golf Trail

Louisiana’s Audubon Golf Trail offers a truly one of three new Audubon Golf Trail golf courses.
unique golfing experience. Trail members have Lake Charles boasts two world-class casino

undergone a rigorous screening process to ensure resorts each with on-site golf courses. It’s a great
a compilation of 17 first class courses with high spot to stay a few days. Moving east along I-10
standards of customer service and top quality is Koasati Pines at Coushatta Casino Resort
maintenance. The Audubon Golf Trail was located in the town of Kinder. It offers a unique
named for naturalist/artist John James Audubon 19th “gambling” hole, a par 3 island green, perfect
who, enchanted by the natural beauty of Louisiana, for tiebreakers and wagers. Just a short drive away,
painted a number of his famous bird studies here. the Lafayette area is now the location for two
And, two courses on the Trail are members of the Audubon Golf Trail golf courses. The Wetlands,
Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary for Golf Courses.
in Lafayette, showcases the region’s wetlands
area, and Farm d’Allie in Carencro is another
The Trail begins in North Louisiana with Louisiana
State Park’s only golf course, Black Bear. It’s located new Audubon Golf Trail member. “The Farm,”
off I-20 east of Monroe and offers both a 17-room as the course is called, is a spectacular 18-hole
lodge and state park cabins for on-site lodging. championship course.

Heading south, Cypress Bend Resort on the Deep in Cajun Country, south of I-10 between
Texas-Louisiana border sits on the bluffs above Baton Rouge and New Orleans is home to The
Toledo Bend Lake. The resort offers an 18-hole Atchafalaya at Idlewild, a scenic Robert von
course, accommodations, delectable dining and Hagge design located in Morgan City.
spa facilities. The Paragon Casino Resort, in
Marksville, boasts the 18-hole Tamahka Trails Greater Baton Rouge has become golf central
course, table games, slots, poker, a hotel, and for Louisiana, with five Audubon Golf Trail
spa. OakWing Golf Club, located at England courses located within 45 minutes of the capital
Air Force Base in Alexandria, is one of the original city. Santa Maria is Baton Rouge’s home course
courses on Louisiana’s Audubon Golf Trail. and was designed by the world-renowned Robert
Trent Jones, Sr. The Island in Plaquemine, a
And in the southwest corner of the state, Mallard true championship course, has just re-joined the
Golf Club, a Scottish links inspired golf course, is Audubon Golf Trail. Copper Mill is in the suburb
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