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About Lake Arthur, LA

Lake Arthur is a small farming town in southwestern Louisiana, accessible via US Highway 165 about 15 miles north of Lake Charles. Most visitors exit I-10 at Jennings and drive south through rice country. The town of 2,600 sits amid vast agricultural fields in Jefferson Davis Parish. It's famous for having the world's largest roadside crab statue, a 12-foot-tall, 2,000-pound monument to Louisiana's seafood heritage.

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Lake Arthur, LA is in United States, at 30.079, -92.677 - about 21 km south-west of Mermentau, LA.

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The closest airport to Lake Arthur, LA is Lake Charles Regional Airport, 67 km (about 1 h 13 min by car).

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