Atchafalaya River SECTION MILE ACCESS CITY Middle Mississippi & Bluegrass Hills / Bootheel 195-0, 954-850 ST. LOUIS TO CARUTHERSVILLE Chickasaw Bluffs 850 – 737 CARUTHERSVILLE TO MEMPHIS Upper Delta 737 – 663 MEMPHIS TO HELENA Middle Delta 663 – 537 HELENA TO GREENVILLE Lower Delta 537 – 437 GREENVILLE TO VICKSBURG Loess Bluffs 437 – 225 VICKSBURG TO BATON ROUGE Atchafalaya River 159 – 0 SIMMESPORT TO MORGAN CITY Atchafalaya Upper Consider The Atchafalaya The Atchafalaya Alternate Route To The Gulf Of Mexico: The Atchafalaya River Big Geography Geography Atchafalaya Exit Intro: Atchafalaya River The Atchafalaya River: Best Route To The Gulf Best Water Levels To Paddle To The Gulf Traffic And Industry On The Atchafalaya NOTE TO PADDLERS: Who Is The Rivergator Written For? Reading The Rivergator: Panel Of Experts: Wild Miles: Warning: Stay Away From Intake Canals! What Are The Wild Miles? Big Trees And Floodplain: Important Note To Paddlers: Your Route: Main Channel Vs. Back Channel The Atchafalaya Split Maps And Mileage USACE 2012 Atchafalaya River And Outlets To Gulf Of Mexico Louisiana Geological Survey Atchafalaya Basin Map Maps Of The Atchafalaya Delta River Speed and Trip Duration Dangers Of Paddling Through Morgan City Expert Paddlers Only! Wind Direction And Speed Atchafalaya Delta Tides Tidal Influence: Estimate Your Camp Height Tidal Coefficient Tides In Rivers Tidal Bore Water Speed In The Passes Which Pass? Wax Lake Outlet: Alternate Route To The Gulf Shell Island Pass Location Island Pass Amerada Pass Main Channel: Melanie Island The Joy Of Reaching The Gulf Camping On The Gulf At The End Of The River The Best Gulf Beaches Open Water Of The Gulf? Some Helpful Hints: Getting Back To Land Getting Back Upstream Paddling What Do You Do Now With Your Vessel? LiNKS = Leave No Kid On Shore Atchafalaya Basinkeeper Bayou Teche Experience Bayou Sara kayak Rental Pack & Paddle Services For Lower Mississippi River Paddlers Lower Mississippi And Ohio River Forecast Reading Google Maps Lower Mississippi River Mileage Rivergator Towboat Protocol What To Pack: Atchafalaya Swamp Pack List: Primitive Camping In The Marshes & Swamps Biting Bugs Poison Ivy Can You Drink The Water? Where Do You Go? (To The Bathroom?) Water Quality The Atchafalaya Basinkeeper The Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper Environmental Reporting Phone Numbers: Maps And Mileage Louisiana Geological Survey Atchafalaya Basin Map Atchafalaya River Boat Ramps (Functional Jan 2016) River Gages Best Water Levels To Paddle To The Gulf What Do You Do Now With Your Vessel? LiNKS = Leave No Kid On Shore Left Bank And Right Bank Towboats And Buoys VHF Marine Radio Resources Cajun Culture And The Atchafalaya Wilderness SOLA Coffee Companies How To Brew A Great-Tasting Pot Of River-Rat Coffee The Atchafalaya A Note On Mileage A Note On Pronunciation Where To Start Your Atchafalaya River Expedition Leaving The Mississippi River Mississippi River Maps And Mileage NATCHEZ GAGE (NG) WATER LEVELS AND DIKES USING THE NATCHEZ GAGE: Three Inflow Openings At Old River Warning Old River Control Structure: 3 Inflow Channels 316.3 RBD Hydro Inflow Channel 313.7 RBD Knox Landing 311.7 RBD Auxiliary Intake — Old River Control Structure 316.3 RBD Hydro Intake — Old River Control Structure Short History Of The Old River Control Structure 314.6 RBD Main Intake — Old River Control Structure 313 LBD Buffalo River Clark Creek Natural Area 311.7 LBD Clark Creek 311.7 – 310 LBD Tunica Hills Below Clark Creek (Mississippi Loess Bluffs ##6) 311 – 309 RBD Point Breeze 310.2 LBD Wilkinson Creek 306 LBD Welcome To Louisiana! 306 – 294 LBD Angola State Penitentiary 306 LBD Angola Ferry 304.5 – 303 LBD Shreve’s Bar 306 – 302 Back Channel Of Shreve’s Bar 306 – 302 Main Channel Of Shreve’s Bar 303.8 Old River Lock And Dam: Entrance To The Atchafalaya River Leaving The Mississippi Towards Lock & Dam The Atchafalaya River: Best Route To The Gulf How Does A Lock & Dam Work? Contact Lockmaster Safe Paddling Through A Lock & Dam Lock Signals Inside The Lock Chamber Order Of Locking Through Mileage Down Lower Old River Channel 6.9 RBD Three Rivers Junction Red River Three Rivers WMA And Red River NWR Atchafalaya – A Modern History Atchafalaya Lower Atchafalaya River Basin Biotas A Lived-In Landscape Atchafalaya Mileage RBD = Right Bank Descending, LBD = Left Bank Descending Gas Pipelines Simmesport Gage (SG) Water Levels According To The Simmesport Gage Maps And Mileage USACE 2012 Atchafalaya River And Outlets To Gulf Of Mexico Louisiana Geological Survey Atchafalaya Basin Map 0.1 LBD Three Rivers Landing 1.4 LBD Small Dune 1.9 RBD Coville Bayou 3.4 LBD Bayou Coteau 4.5 Simmesport KCS Railroad Bridge 4.6 LBD Simmesport Sand Dune 4.8 LBD Kuhlman Bayou 5.5 Simmesport River Park Simmesport, Louisiana Canadaville, Louisana 9 – 11 RBD Odenburg Island Dikes 12.5 LBD Marine Bayou 13 – 20 Atchafalaya Squiggles 13.2 RBD Porcupine Point 14.5 LBD Cypress Point 14.5 RBD 14.7 RBD Small Dunes 15.5 Primitive Boat Ramp (Private) 16 RBD Eddy Dune 16.5 RBD Trash Site 17 – 18 RBD Hick’s Landing/Gordon Point 18 – 20 LBD Bayou Point Borrow Pits And Blue Holes 20.5 LBD Small Sandy Shelves 20 – 25 Bayou Current To Elba Landing 22 RBD Cell Tower 22.2 LBD Small Hump Of Sand 23.4 RBD Barberton Landing 25.1 RBD Elba Landing 26.1 RBD Small Bluff Of Sand 26.2 LBD Broad Sandy Shelf 26.3 RBD Old Channel Of Bayou Rouge 27.1 LBD Point Coupee/Bayou Latenache Pumping Station 27.1 Morganza Floodway – North End 28.1 Underwater Pipeline Crossings 28.2 Aerial Pipeline Crossing 29.6 Melville Union Pacific Railroad Bridge 29.7 RBD Melville Boat Ramp (Primitive) 29.8 LBD Melville Ferry Barge East Bank Landing 30 – 40 Melville To Krotz Springs 31 LBD Broad Bay 31.5 LBD Cross Bayou 31.7 LBD Open Field Cow Pasture 32.5 LBD Cross Bayou Point (Owl Hoot) 35.6 LBD Small Sandbar 36 – 37 RBD Sandy Landings 37.1 RBD Cell Tower 39.7 LBD Bayou Sherman Point Atchafalaya Basin Pack List For Swampy/Marshy Camp Sites Switching To The KROTZ SPRINGS GAGE (KG) Water Levels According To The Krotz Springs Gage 38.5 – 42.7 Krotz Springs Utility Crossings 39.3 Water Drainage Structure: Origins Of The Teche River 39.5 RBD Cell Tower 39.6 LBD High Sand Dune 40.3 RBD Gravel Landing 40.3 Wire Suspension Bridge For Pipeline 41 Krotz Springs US Hwy 190 And 71 (2 Bridges) 41.5 Krotz Springs Union Pacific Railroad Bridge 42.3 RBD Krotz Springs Boat Ramp Krotz Springs History 42.5 RBD Port Of Krotz Springs Krotz Springs To The Split Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge 44 Sherburne Bend 44.5 RBD Frank Diesl Point 44.9 LBD Small Sand Dune 46.1 RBD Bayou Big Graw Boat Ramp 49.3 RBD Bayou Courtableau 49.7 LBD Coswell Point 51 RBD Courtableau Point 54.2 LBD End Of The East Bank Levee 55 LBD Atchafalaya NWR Boat Ramp 55.1 Two Blue Holes 55.4 LBD Alabama Point 56.4 RBD Old Atchafalaya Point 56.4 The Atchafalaya Split Whiskey Bay Pilot Channel 59.8 I-10 The Atchafalaya Basin Bridge 60 RBD Sand Dune 60.5 Union Texas Petrochemical Aerial Crossing 61.7 LBD Bayou Des Glaises Boat Ramp (Primitive) 62.3 LBD Bayou Des Glaises 66.4 RBD Splice Lake 66.7 LBD Pat’s Throat 68 RBD Willow Point 68.5 LBD Blue Heron Point 70.9 LBD Upper Grand River 73.4 LBD Little Tensas Bayou 75.3 LBD Texaco Resources Dock 75.5 RBD Splice Island (Bottom End) Primitive Camping In The Marshes & Swamps 75.7 LBD Jake’s Bayou 75.8 Three Major Pipelines 76.4 LBD Lake Mongoulois Point 77.2 RBD Bayou Chene 79.9 Tarleton Bayou 81.2 LBD Bayou Sorrel 81.2 LBD Bayou Sorrell: Alternate Route Down The Atchafalaya 3 Days On Dean’s Route East Grand Lake 82.4 LBD Bee Bayou 82 – 99 Chicot Pass 83 Pipeline Tailings 83.2 Philip’s Canal 85.7 RBD Danbury Management Corp Dock 86.2 RBD Canal Entrance 86.8 RBD Canal Entrance 88.1 RBD Canal Entrance 89.7 RBD Pipeline Canal 91.2 Texas Gas Transmission Co. 12″ Gas Pipeline Attakapas Island Wildlife Management Area 95.4 LBD Blue Hole 96.1 Texas Gas Transmission Co. 12″ Gas Pipeline 96.7 Old Pipeline Canal 97.3 Louisiana Intrastate Gas Corp 4″ Gas Pipeline 98.2 RBD Myette Point MORGAN CITY GAGE (MCG) Water Levels According To The Morgan City Gage Tidal Influence Estimate Your Camp Height 100.2 LBD Blue Hole Landing 102 RBD Sixmile Lake: Access To Wax Lake Outlet Wax Lake Outlet: Alternate Route To The Gulf Paradise Regained: The Wax Lake Delta 103.8 LBD Narrow Bayou Leading To East Grand Lake 105 LBD Blue Point Chute: Shortcut To Cypress Wonderland 107.9 Exxon Gas Transmission Company 20″ Gas Pipeline 108.3 RBD Shortcut To Sixmile Lake 109 RBD Cypress Pass Back Channel 109.5 Duck Lake Channel Duck Lake Many Rivers To Follow 111.7 RBD Lower Atchafalaya River 111.7 RBD Riverside Pass 112.5 RBD Three Island Pass 113 RBD Little Island Pass Main Channel Atchafalaya River 115.1 American Pass 115.8 LBD Pipeline Canal To Dog Island Pass And Flat Lake Flat Lake 115.8 – 119.8 LBD Drew’s Island 117 RBD Stouts Point 119 Drew’s Pass Dangers Of Paddling Through Morgan City Waves Small Tows In Harbors Towboats Vs. Tugboats Stay Off The River In Fog Fleeted Barges Buoys And Other Hazardous Stationary Objects 119 LBD Swiftships Boat Yard 119.5 RBD Bayou Teche (Berwick) Lock & Dam 119.5 RBD Bayou Teche Water Trail 121 Morgan City US Hwy 90 Bridge 121.2 LBD Morgan City Downtown Landing Morgan City 121.3 Morgan City Texas And New Orleans Railroad Bridge 121.4 RBD Berwick Public Boat Ramp 121.4 LBD Mr. Charlie: The International Petroleum Museum Intro: Morgan City To The Gulf Of Mexico Maps Of The Atchafalaya Delta Best Water Levels To Paddle To The Gulf Morgan City Gage (MCG) Water Levels According To The Morgan City Gage Flood Stage Warning: Weather And Tides Check The Winds And Weather Tidal Influence: Estimate Your Camp Height 121.5 LBD Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (East) 121.7 – 130.3 Bateman Island Pipelines And Electrical Lines 124.2 RBD Berwick Intracoastal Waterway Boat Launch 124.2 RBD Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (West) 124.5 RBD Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Point (South Side) Atchafalaya Delta Navigation Channel Buoys 126-127 LBD Outside Bend Highground 127.4 Bateman Island Point And Bend 127.5 – 128 RBD Cypress Forests 128 – 131 LBD Sweetbay Lake 131 LBD Access To Bayou Shaffer Via Sweetbay Lake 131 RBD Glass Island Night-Time Sky In The Atchafalaya Delta 131.8 – 132 LBD Stands Of Young Cypress Trees 134 RBD Sandy Willow Spit 134 LBD Avoca Island Cutoff 135-136 LBD New Dike Wall 135-138 LBD New Navigation Channel Around He Avoca Island Bend 136 – 137 Sandy Marsh Island 137.8 RBD Shell Island Pass Gulf Route: Crossing Over To The Wax Lake Delta Atchafalaya Delta Wildlife Management Area 138.5 LBD Low Lying Muddy/Sandy Beach With Willows 139.1 LBD Small Shell Beach 140 LBD Deer Island 140.5 RBD Breaux’s Pass 140.2 LBD Location Island Pass 142.2 LBD East Pass 144.2 RBD Amerada Pass 144.2 RBD Willow Island 144.3 LBD God’s Island 144.3 LBD God’s Island 144.8 RBD Log Island Pass 145.4 RBD Yvette Island 146 RBD Melanie Island 148.5 RBD Donna Island 150.5 RBD Eugene Island 151.5 LBD Bird Island East Pount Au Fer/Raqet Pass Getting Back To Land Atchafalaya Delta WMA Campground Wax Lake Delta Passes Getting Back Upstream Paddling What Do You Do Now With Your Vessel? 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