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Discover YOUR PERSONAL LINK TO ALL THINGS Share Duck into Monroe-West Monroe Connect get connected @ www.monroe-westmonroe.org Home of the Robertson family, the stars of the A&E hit show Duck Dynasty. Shop at our unique boutiques and Discover Family Experiences classic antique shops on Antique Alley or Pecanland Mall, North Louisiana’s largest shopping mall. Find something special facebook.com/MonroeWestMonroe at one of over 50 boutiques in town. Eat at one of over 100 locally owned and fl avored restaurants serving everything from plate lunches of soul food to creative Discover twitter.com/mwmcvb at over 100 local restaurants upscale dishes. 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You’ll be “ Happy, ONE CLICK AWAY Happy, Happy” that you did! to plan your day or your stay! monroe-westmonroe.org I-20 pinterest.com/monroewestmonroe Visitors Guide USE 800.843.1872 | 318.387.5691 discoverMWM UNFOLD monroe-westmonroe.org to have your photos featured on our social channels # FOR MAP #discoverMWM Table of Contents 1 Discover 27 Outdoor From Cokes and Bayous to Beards and Flying 27 Outdoor & Sporting Goods Stores Tigers, we’ve got it all right here in Monroe-West 28 Golf Monroe. Check out our area attractions and 29 Parks you’ll Discover Monroe-West Monroe! 30 RV Parks & Camping 30 Outdoor Activities 7 E at 31 Wildlife Refuges/Areas 7 Steak & Seafood 8 Catfish Houses 32 Day Trips 9 Cajun/Gumbo/Crawfish 10 Soups/Sandwiches/PoBoys 11 Hamburgers & Grills 33 Entertainment 12 Soul Food/Homestyle Plate Lunches 33 Fun for the Kids 13 Coney Islands 33 Bowling 13 Bar-B-Que 34 Movies 13 Mexican 34 Skating 14 Italian 34 The Arts 15 Latin 35 Art Galleries 15 Greek & Lebanese 35 Downtown Events 15 Indian 36 Nightlife 15 Japanese/Sushi 36 Spas 16 Chinese 16 Diners 16 Coffee Houses 17 Bakeries & Desserts 37 Accommodations 17 Donut Shops 18 Lagniappe 19 Take Out & Food Trucks Map in back 20 Familiar Favorites 21 Shop 21 Pecanland Mall 21 Antique Alley 21 Antique Shops 22 Specialty Shops 23 Boutique Shopping 23 Downtown Monroe 24 Midtown Monroe 25 North Monroe and Lakeshore Area 26 Sterlington 26 West Monroe 26 Thrifty Finds www.monroe-westmonroe.org | 800.843.1872 Biedenharn Museum Black Bayou Lake National Chennault Aviation & Military DISCOVER & Gardens Wildlife Refuge Museum of Louisiana Immerse yourself in nature at the Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge. This majestic 4,500- acre expanse of lake, swamp, and woodlands is a wildlife habitat with all manner of plant species and everything from small alligators and turtles to coyote, deer and a wide variety of fowl. Delight in the Here’s one gem of a museum! Occupying one of the last standing Step up to the soda counter to hear the tale of how and why beauty of herons, egrets, buildings from the WWII Selman Army Airfield Navigation Coca-Cola comes in a bottle from an entertaining soda jerk. Then orioles and red-winged School, this totally renovated facility is filled with more exhibits refresh with a 5 cent Coke and the nostalgia of early Coca-Cola blackbirds from the and artifacts than one would ever believe. The aviation portion memorabilia displayed in an indoor and outdoor setting of the wildlife pier or bird blind. highlights three historic chapters in the nation’s and Monroe’s Coke Museum. Walk among the wonderful collection of Coca-Cola Walk on a nature trail history: the Navigation School (largest in the country at the time) artifacts including a delivery truck, signs, posters, bottles and that meanders through a that trained over 15,000 navigators during WWII; the birth of Delta Coke machines. Tour the elegant home of Joseph Biedenharn, forested wetland. Marvel Airlines from a regional crop dusting service; and Louisiana native first bottler of Coca-Cola, every room lovingly decorated by at the quiet beauty of the 1,600-acre lake from the quiet of your General Claire Chennault, leader of the Flying Tigers. The military his daughter Emy-Lou Biedenharn, a renowned opera singer rented canoe with stately cypress and tupelo trees towering portion is portrayed through sections of the museum representing during the pre- World War II years. Stroll through the beautiful overhead. The Visitors’ Center, a restored 1880s Acadian house, all five military branches. Each section houses an abundance of ELsong Gardens behind the home with over an acre of terraces, offers interactive exhibits and a nature shop. Behind the center weaponry, uniforms, photographs, documents and other artifacts fountains, formal plantings and statues, interlaced amid French is a covered amphitheater for educational programs. Visit the depicting WWI through present day with heavy emphasis on iron grillwork, tailored boxwood walkways, and year-round blooms conservation learning center with its mural of the lake and Louisiana. Military heroes, many from Northeast Louisiana, are all enshrined by an English-style brick wall. Explore the extensive live animal exhibits of native fish and reptiles. Other features profiled providing dramatic first-person accounts of experiences in collection of historically significant and unique Bibles, include an arboretum with labeled Louisiana native tree and the military. In a separate room is an extensive exhibit showing the including a Gutenberg leaf, in the Bible Museum adjacent woody shrub species, a photo blind, boat launch, canoeing, life and times of General Chennault and his famous Flying Tigers to the home. Also on permanent display is the impressive year-round fishing, and seasonal hunting opportunities. from WWII, showcasing the world’s largest collection of Chennault Russian Icon Exhibition. A variety of other exhibits from artifacts. The museum features an elaborate exhibit collection of institutions such as the Smithsonian are displayed on a 480 Richland Place, Monroe Nazi Germany artifacts and a growing outdoor display of historic rotating basis. Be sure to visit their retail (318) 387-1114 aircraft and vehicles. A theater and meeting room are also on-site. shop with a variety of Coke merchandise, www.fws.gov/northlouisiana/blackbayoulake local souvenirs, jewelry and home decor. Refuge open daylight hours. 701 Kansas Lane, Monroe Visitor Center open 8am-4pm weekdays, (318) 362-5540 2006 Riverside Drive, Monroe 9am-5pm Sat, 1pm-5pm Sun. www.chennaultmuseum.org (318) 387-5281 Admission: Free; Boat launch fee: $2; Canoe rental fees: $20 9am-4pm Tues-Sat www.bmuseum.org for 1/2 day (4 hours), $35 for a full day - Call to schedule. Admission: Free 10am-5pm Tues-Sat Admission: Adults $6; Children $4 (12 & Under); Annual pass $20; Household pass $60 1 2 Duck Commander Louisiana Purchase Northeast Louisiana Masur Museum of Art The Tour Gardens and Zoo Children’s Museum This is truly a wonderful museum, set in a 1920s Tudor-style It’s so much fun, they’ll never know it’s a museum! This is structure (listed on the National Register of Historic Places) with a super place, where adults and kids can learn and grow charming open spaces, hardwood floors and inviting year-round together. Permanent exhibits include the Firehouse, a replica displays of a wide spectrum of art. The Masur Museum features with a sliding pole; Health Hall, where kids can be a paramedic; a permanent collection of paintings, prints and sculpture, as Toddlertown, a cool, whimsical area for those under 4; Kids’ well as six to eight exhibitions annually of art from museums Café, be a server, cashier, chef; Bubbleworks, make a giant and artists nationwide. A yearly national juried exhibition is bubble; and The Big Mouth, walk in and explore! Great traveling also held. Art lectures, gallery talks, special presentations, art exhibits from across the U.S. are featured throughout the classes and children’s workshops year, too. From mid-November to Christmas, the museum are conducted year-round. transforms to Santa’s Christmas Village with ice skating, holiday crafts, storytime with Mrs. Claus, the Peppermint Post 1400 South Grand Street, This is an 80 plus acre zoological park and gardens for Office, and visits with Santa. Party packages are available, and Monroe family fun and education with almost 2 miles of pathways a gift shop is on the premises. It’s where learning is fun! (318) 329-2237 wandering through animal exhibits, park like grounds and www.masurmuseum.org gardens. Don’t miss the Zooasis Splash Pad, playground, 323 Walnut Street, Monroe 9am-5pm Tues-Fri Safari Boat ride, and the Train. You can see over 400 birds (318) 361-9611 12pm-5pm Sat and animals with over 100 species. Areas include the Land www.nelcm.org Admission: Free Down Under, The Louisiana Purchase and a petting zoo. 9am-2pm Tues-Fri; 10am-5pm Sat Admission: $6 per person. Group rates available. 1405 Bernstein Park Road, Monroe (318) 329-2400 www.monroezoo.org Open daily from 10am-5pm. Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day. Admission: Adults $4.50, Seniors $3, Youth $3, Northeast Louisiana Delta Children 2 & under are free. Boat ride $3 per person. African American Museum Train tickets $3. Group rates available. A collection of African American art, culture and history in an architecturally interesting building! Changing art exhibits feature local and regional African American artists. An interesting array of artifacts from Northeast Louisiana includes kitchen ware and furniture from old slave cabins, early cotton farming tools, even sacks used for picking cotton.