Golf in Coushatta

Red River Parish straddles the Red River in northwest Louisiana, a region of cotton fields, small towns, and timber that retains a slower pace than the Shreveport-Bossier City metro an hour to the northwest. Coushatta is the parish seat, a modest town on the river's edge with a history tied to the steamboat era when the Red River was a commercial artery. Coushatta Country Club serves the local membership in this quietly agricultural parish, set in the transition zone between the pine upland and the river's alluvial floor. The Red River's red-clay water, which gives both the river and the parish their name, colors the landscape in wet seasons.