Lake Charles
Lake Charles is a brackish body of water located within the estuary of the Calcasieu River in Southwest Louisiana, United States. It is situated almost entirely within the Lake Charles city limits.Photo: CTtcg, Public domain.
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, USA
- Also known as: “Charleys Lake”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sudduth Coliseum and Old Lake Charles City Hall.
Sudduth Coliseum
Music venue
Sudduth Coliseum, in the Lake Charles Event Center, is a 7,450-seat multi-purpose arena in Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA. Located on Lakeshore Drive, it is the main arena of the event center and is named for former Lake Charles Mayor James Sudduth.
Old Lake Charles City Hall
Museum
Photo: CTtcg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Old Lake Charles City Hall is a museum.
Waffle House
Building
Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Waffle House, Inc. is an American restaurant chain with over 2,000 locations in 25 states in the United States. The bulk of the locations are in the Midwest and the South, where the chain is a regional cultural icon.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lake Charles and Westlake.
Lake Charles
Photo: Team at Carnaval.com Studios, CC BY 2.0.
Lake Charles is the second-largest city in the Acadiana region of Louisiana, with 87,000 residents in 2022. It is well known for gaming and the great outdoors, culinary delights and rhythm and blues.
Westlake
Town
Westlake is an industrial city in Calcasieu Parish, in western Louisiana, United States, and is part of the Lake Charles metropolitan statistical area.
Mossville
Hamlet
Mossville is a small, predominantly African American unincorporated community on the outskirts of Lake Charles in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States. Mossville is situated 4½ miles west of Lake Charles.
Lake Charles
- Category: body of water
- Location: Calcasieu, Louisiana, South, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
“Lake Charles” goes by many names.
- Welsh: “Llyn Charles”
- “Charles”
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include North Beach and Lake Charles Hilton Heliport.
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