The Lower Mississippi River Water Trail

Baton Rouge to Venice

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	736 – 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
Louisiana Delta	229 – 10	BATON ROUGE TO VENICE

Introduction
Baton Rouge to New Orleans
Baton Rouge Gauge (BR)
230 LBD	Welcome to Baton Rouge: Downtown Riverfront
Baton Rouge Sites and Services of interest to Paddlers
Food
229.6 – 228.6 RBD	Port Of Baton Rouge
The I-10 (New) Bridge
229 LBD	Glass Beach
Directions to Glass Beach
Daytrips from Baton Rouge
229 LBD	Old Municipal Dock
229 – 228.5	Lower Baton Rouge Anchorage
229.1 RBD	Baton Rouge City Wharf: Community Coffee
SoLa Coffee Companies
How to Brew a Great-Tasting Pot of River-Rat Coffee:
228.9 RBD	Cargill Greater Baton Rouge Port Commission Grain Wharf
Port Allen/West Baton
229 – 228.5 LBD	Lower Baton Rouge Anchorage
228.5 LBD	Economy Boat Store Wharf
228.4 RBD	Mouth of ICWW
228.4 RBD	Intracoastal Waterway (Morgan City Port Allen Route)
Resupply from Intercostal Waterway Boat Ramp (Under Hwy 1)
228.4 – 226 RBD	Cargo Carriers Port Allen Fleet West Bank Mooring
What are Fleeted Barges?
Paddling out of the Baton Rouge Industrial Reach
228 RBD	LSU Tigers Stadium
227.4 LBD	LSU
Highlights of Industry
Toxic Release Inventory (TRI)
Chem Corridor Superlatives
High-Tech Materials Used by Paddlers
What about Terreprene?
Green Spaces
Wild Miles
225.3 – 223.9 RBD	Western Towing Company West Bank Fleet
225-223	Red Eye Crossing
224-221 LBD	Missouri Bend Pointway
223-222 LBD	Missouri Island
RBD 221.8	Dow Chemical Missouri U.S.A., Plaquemine Dock No. 2. Hydrocarbon Wharf
222 and 210 RBD	Dow Chemical Company Louisiana Operations, Dexco, and Shintech Addis
Duncan Point/Manchac Point/Plaquemine Island/Sunshine Green Space
LBD 221-220	Duncan Point
219 RBD	Lowlands Opposite Duncan Point
220 RBD	Sardine Point
220 RBD – 218	LBD Sardine Crossing
219 RBD	Comeaux Landing
216.5 RBD	Australia Landing
216.5 LBD	L’Auberge Casino
216.2 LBD	Longwood Plantation
214.5 RBD	Manchac Point
215 LBD	Bayou Manchac
212.8 LBD	Small Dune
213 LBD – 211 RBD	Medora Crossing
211.5 RBD	The Medora Site
211 – 209.5 LBD	Plaquemine Island
210.5 RBD	Morrisonville
210.4 RBD	Morrisonville Landing
210 RBD	Dow Chemical Company Louisiana Operations
210 RBD	Dow Chemical Wastewater Outfall
208.5 RBD	Dow Chemical Plaquemine Point Shipyard, Cleaning Wharf
209 RBD	Myrtle Grove Trailer Park
208.7 RBD	Plaquemine Beach
City of Plaquemine
Bayou Plaquemine: Alternate Route to Gulf via Atchafalaya Basin
209 LBD	Plaquemine Point
208.5 RBD	Plaquemine Boat Ramp
208 RBD – 207.5 LBD	Plaquemine Ferry
206 RBD	Reveilletown
204.8 LBD	Shintec Louisiana Plaquemine PVC Plant
205.2 RBD	Small Dune
206-204 RBD	Sunshine Wetlands
206 RBD – 203	Granada Crossing
203.8 LBD	LBC Sunshine Terminal
203.3 RBD	SNF Flopam
201.6 LBD	Willow Glen Power Plant
201 – 199 RBD	Point Pleasant
200 LBD – 197 RBD	Bayou Goula Crossing
200.1 LBD	Industrial Complex including Taminco Inc., Syngenta, and Olin Chlor Alkali
Point Pleasant/Bayou Goula Island/Point Claire Green Space
195.6 RBD	Bayou Goula Landing
196 – 194.5 LBD	Bayou Goula Island
Bayou Goula
194.8 RBD	Nottaway Plantation
194 LBD	Point Clair
193.5 RBD	White Castle
192.7 RBD	Cane Sugar Refinery (Cora Texas Manufacturing Co)
191.5 RBD – 191 LBD	White Castle-Carville Ferry
Carville
191 LBD	Carville Landing
190.8 LBD	Carville Boat Ramp
191 – 190 LBD	White Castle Anchorage
Geismar Industrial Reach
188-184 RBD	Claiborne Island
Nurdles: What Are Nurdles?
187.9 LBD	Total Petrochemicals and Refining and Caravelle Energy Center
186.8 LBD	Industrial Complex including PCS Nitrogen, Honeywell, and Williams Olefins
185.3 LBD	Methanex
185 LBD	Industrial Complex including Borden Chemicals, Westlake Chemicals, and Momentive Specialty Chemicals
185 LBD	Geismar
184.6 LBD	Rubicon and Lion Copolymer
183.9 IMTT	Geismar and BASF
183.2 LBD	Shell Chemical and OxyChem
183.2 LBD	Sandbar below Shell Geismar
182.8 – 182 LBD	Carline’s Geismar Fleeting
182 LBD	Old Inger Oil Refinery Superfund Site
Philadelphia Point/ Eighty-One Mile Point Greenspace
181 – 179 RBD	Philadelphia Point
180.3 – 178.8 LBD	L & L Dry Bulk Transfer & Mooring
177.3 – 175.2 LBD	L & L Fleeting and Mooring
Big Foot
178 LBD	Eighty-One Mile Point
Donaldsonville Industrial Reach
177.9 RBD	Smoke Bend Sand Dune
177 RBD – 174 LBD	Smoke Bend Crossing
175.4 RBD	Bayou Lafourche Water Intake
175.2	Donaldsonville Boat Ramp
175 RBD	Donaldsonville
173.5 RBD	CF Industries
173.7 LBD	Private House and Boat Ramp
Bringier Point/Houmas Point Greenspace
173 LBD	Bringier Point
172 RBD	Point Houmas
170.7 LBD	Houmas House Plantation and Gardens
170 LBD	Burnside Terminal and Burnside Alumina Refinery
169.2 LBD	Chemours
168.3 LBD	Motiva Convent Refinery
167.5	Sunshine Bridge
167 -165 LBD	Sunshine Anchorage
Bonfires on the Levee
167 RBD	Mosaic Faustina and American Styrenics
163.8 LBD	Zen-Noh Grain
165 LBD	Shell Beach
164.5 LBD	Zen-Noh Point
163 LBD	Nucor Steel
162 LBD	Romeville Dune
161 LBD – 158 RBD	Rich Bend Crossing
161.5 LBD	Occidental Chemical Convent
160.9 LBD	SunCoke Energy Convent Marine Terminal
160.7 RBD thru 158 RBD	St James Petroleum Terminals
160.4	Mosaic Uncle Sam
159.5 RBD	Burton Lane
160 RBD	Chatman Town
156 LBD	College Point Beach & Greenspace
Manresa On The Mississippi
156 RBD – 152 LBD	Belmont Crossing
Oak Alley Plantation
150.4 LBD	ADM Growmark St. Elmo
150.5 LBD	St. Elmo Terminal Grain Elevator Wharf
149.3 LBD	Paulina – Poche Park
148.1 LBD	Grandview Beach
Switching To The New Orleans Gage (NO)
Water levels according to the New Orleans Gage (NO)
149 – 147 LBD	Upper Grandview Anchorage
147	Gramercy
146.2 LBD	Louisiana Sugar Refining (LSR)
145.6 LBD	Rain CII Gramercy Calciner
145.4 LBD	Noranda Alumina Gramercy
145.9	Gramercy Bridge (Veteran’s Memorial Bridge)
145.4	Kaiser Bauxite
Blind River
Maurepas Swamp Wildlife Management Area
Manchac Wildlife Management Area
144 RBD	Angelina Landing
143.6 LBD	Nalco Garyville And Evonik Stockhausen
Angelina/Willow Bend Greenspace
143.4 LBD	MARQUEZ
142.4 LBD	Forty-Eight Mile Point/ Belle Point
142.3 RBD	Wego
142 RBD	Willow Bend
141 RBD – 139 LBD	Willow Bend Crossing
141.7 LBD	Garyville
139.75 LBD	Lions
140.6 – 140.0 LBD	Marathon Ashland Petroleum, Louisiana Refining Docks 1, 2, 3 & 4
140.5 LBD	Marathon Garyville Refinery, Pinnacle Polymers, And Air Products And Chemicals
139.8 LBD	Cargill, Inc. – NAGOC Reserve Oilseed Wharf
139.4 LBD	Cargill
139.2 LBD	ADM/Growmark, Reserve Elevator Wharf
138.7 LBD	Port Of South Louisiana, Globalplex Bulk Commodities Wharves
138 RBD	Reserve
138 RBD – 137.6 LBD	Reserve Ferry
137.8 – 135 RBD	Cargo Carriers Fleeting & Mooring
135.4 – 134.7 LBD	La Place Anchorage
136.7 LBD	Elmwood Marine Services Repair Wharf And Capital Marine Supply, Triangle Fleet Moorings
135.7 LBD	DuPont Pontchartrain Works
Bonnet Carre/Thirty-Five Mile Point Green Space
133 RBD	Bonnet Carre Point
132.9 LBD	Bonnet Carre Crevasse
132.4 LBD	ArcelorMittal (Bayou Steel)
132 – 131.5 RBD	BONNET CARRE ISLAND
131.5 RBD	Hymelia Crevasse
131 RBD	HYMELIA BEACH
130 RBD	Killona Landing
130 LBD	THIRTY-FIVE MILE POINT
Taft/Hahnville/Norco Industrial Reach
129.8 RBD	Entergy Louisiana, Waterford Steam Electric Plants 1 & 2 Wharf
129.5 RBD	Waterford 3
129.5 LBD	Entergy Louisiana, Inc., Little Gypsy Power Plant
128.9 RBD	Occidental Chemical Koch Industries, Taft Plant Dock
128.8 LBD	False Boat Ramp
128.8 – 127.3 LBD	BONNET CARRE SPILLWAY
128.8 – 127.3 LBD	Bonnet Carre Anchorage
127.3 LBD	SPILLWAY BOAT RAMP
128.8 – 127.3	Kugler And Kenner Cemeteries
128.4 RBD	Air Products, Air Liquide, Praxair, Galata, Koch Nitrogen
128.1 – 127.8 RBD	Dow Chemical Company (Union Carbide Corp)
127.8 RBD	Taft
127 RBD	Upper St. Rose Repair Wharf And Fleet Mooring
127 RBD	Upper St. Rose Repair & Fleeting
127 LBD	Shell Chemical Norco Plant
126.1 LBD	Diamond And Norco
126.9 LBD	Shell Norco Chemical Plant West Site And Momentive Specialty Chemicals
126 LBD	Motiva Enterprises, Norco Refining Dock 1, 2, 3 & 4
126 LBD	Bayou Trepagnier
125.5 LBD	Shell, Motiva, Valero, Union Carbide, And Rain CII
125 LBD	Valero Refining Corp., Norco Refinery Dock No.1, 2, 3, 4, And 5
124.6 LBD	New Sarpy
124.4 RBD	T.T. Barge Mile 125 Barge Launch And Repair Wharf
123.7 LBD	26-Mile False Point
122.7 LBD	Twenty-Six Mile Point (And Greenspace)
122.5 LBD	Ormand Landing And Plantation
123 RBD	Dufresne
122 RBD	Small Dune At Luling
121.6 RBD	Hale Boggs – Luling Bridge
121 LBD	Old Pan American Southern Oil Refinery
120.8 RBD	Old Luling Ferry Ramp (Defunct)
Luling/Destrehan/St. Rose/Ama Industrial Reach
120.5 LBD	ADM/Growmark Destrehan Elevator Wharf
120.5 LBD	Bunge Corp North America, Destrehan Elevator Wharf
120 RBD	Monsanto Luling Docks No’s 2, 3, And 4
120 RBD	Monsanto, OxyChem, And Air Products
Roundup
118.8 LBD	International Matex, St. Rose Terminal, Berths Nos. 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 14, And 15
118.6 LBD	International Matex Tank Terminals (IMTT) And Shell
118.7	RBD Davis Crevasse
118 RBD – 115 LBD	Fairview Crossing
117.6 RBD	ADM/Growmark, Ama Grain Elevator Dock
117.5 LBD	St. Rose Landing
116 – 113 RBD	Kenner Bend Anchorage
114.5 RBD	Fortier Manufacturing Complex
Louis Armstrong International Airport
114.7	City Of Kenner Landing (Upper)
113 LBD	City of Kenner Landing
113 LBD	Kenner, LA
111-109	Wood Resources Fleeting
111 RBD	Channel Shipyard Wharf
111 RBD	ARTCO New Orleans Shipyard Slip
111.8 LBD	Small Sand Dune
112.1	East Jefferson Parish Discharge
111 – 108	Avondale Bend/The “River Illusion”
112 – 109 LBD	Twelve Mile Point Greenspace
110 – 109 LBD	Twelve Mile Point
Elmwood/Bridge City/Jefferson Industrial Reach
108.2 RBD	International Matex Tank Terminals (IMTT) Avondale
107.7 RBD	Avondale Ship Yard
107.6 RBD	Litton Industries
106.1	Huey P. Long Bridge
106.1 RBD	Fort Banks
105 LBD	Camp Parapet & Parapet Line
104.8 RBD	T.T. Barge Coatings, Inc
104.2 LBD	Ochsner Medical Center
104.3 LBD	Batture Houses
Mahalia Jackson
104 RBD	Nine-Mile Point
103.8 RBD	Entergy Louisiana Nine-Mile Point Steam Electric Station
104.1 LBD	New Orleans Raw Water Intake
103.8 LBD	Carrolton Bend Beach
We All Live Downstream
104 – 103 LBD	Carrolton Bend
Gert Town
103.1 – 103 RBD	Cargill Westwego Grain Transfer
Smaller Tows From Here On Downstream
102.8	USACE Boat Ramp (Restricted)
102.7	U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers, New Orleans District
Flood Control
Americas Largest Port
Protecting And Restoring Louisiana’s Coast
102.3 – 102.2 RBD	Low Water Sand Dunes
102 RBD	Kinder Morgan Seven Oaks Terminal
101.7 LBD	Audubon Park Excursion Boat Landing
102 – 101 LBD	“The Fly” — Audubon Park — Audubon Zoo
Some Music Venues Of Note Within Walking Distance
Health Food/Gourmet Food Resupply
New Orleans / Westwego / Gretna / Algiers Industrial Stretch
New Orleans Steamboats And Ferries
101.9 RBD	National Gypsum Co., Westwego Plant Wharf
101.7 RBD	City Of Westwego Landing
101.4 RBD	ST Services, LLC, Westwego Terminal Wharf
101.4 RBD	Blackwater Midstream Westwego
101.4 LBD	Six-Mile Point
101.1 LBD	Henry Clay Avenue Wharf
100.8 LBD	Nashville Avenue Wharf A, B, And C
100 LBD	New Orleans Container Terminal
99.5 LBD	Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal
98.2 RBD	Harvey Lock – Entrance To The Harvey Canal
97.1 RBD – 97.1 LBD	Gretna Ferry
97.1 LBD	East Bank (New Orleans Side) Gretna Ferry
97 LBD	Gretna
96.7 RBD	Gretna Water Intake
96.3 LBD	Old New Orleans Power Plant
95.6	Crescent City Connection – Greater New Orleans Bridge
July 2008 Oil Spill
95.4 LBD	New Orleans Convention Center
95.4 RBD	Algiers Water Intake
95.4 – 94.0 LBD	Welcome to New Orleans: The Riverwalk
94.9 LBD – 94.8 RBD	Algiers – Canal Street Ferry
94.7	Audubon Aquarium Of The Americas
94.7 LBD	Bienville St. (Aquarium Landing) Wharf
94.6 LBD	Moonwalk, French Quarter
New Orleans to Venice
94.5 RBD	Algiers Point
94.4 RBD	Algiers Sandbar & Beach
LBD 94-93	Algiers Bend
93.9	Crescent Park
Tidal Effect Below New Orleans
Estimate Your Camp Height
Press Park, Gordon Plaza, And Liberty Terrace
92.5 LBD	Industrial Canal (Intercoastal Waterway East)
MRGO
91.7 LBD	Jackson Barracks
90.9 LBD	Domino Sugar Factory (American Sugar Refinery)
90.6 LBD	Arabi Terminal Aka Chalmette Slip No. 1 And No. 2
90.5 LBD	Chalmette Primitive Landing
90.2 LBD	Chalmette Battlefield & Chalmette National Cemetery
Versailles
Chalmette / Meraux / Violet Industrial Stretch
89.6 LBD	Former Kaiser Aluminum Site
89.2 – 88.3 LBD	Chalmette Refining
89.1 LBD	Rain CII Chalmette Calciner
88.6 LBD – 88.6 RBD	Lower Algiers Ferry
88.2 RBD	Algiers Lock: Gulf Intercoastal Waterway
87.6 LBD	Meraux Water Intake
87.5 LBD	East Chalmette
87.0 LBD	Murphy Oil USA, Meraux Refinery
Poydras Bend/English Turn Bend Green Space
84.6 RBD	Docville Farms
84.5 RBD	Poydras Wetlands
84.4 RBD	Poydras Lower
84.3 RBD	Audubon Wilderness Park
83.9 LBD	The Violet Canal
83.8 LBD	Violet Dock Port, Inc., Berthing Facility No’s 1, 2, 3, 4, And 5
83.6 RBD	A Studio In The Woods
82.6 – 81.6	Poydras Crevasse
81.4 LBD	Caernarvon Crevasse
81.4 LBD	Caernarvon Fresh Water Diversion Structure
81 RBD	TWELVE MILE POINT
79.7 LBD	Stolthaven New Orleans LLC, Berth No’s 3 & 4, Braithwaite
79.7 LBD	Stolthaven Boat Ramp (Private)
78 LBD	Shingle Point
79 – 77	English Turn Bend
“You Are On The Wrong River!”
78.1 RBD	Fort St. Leon
78.1 LBD	Fort St. Marie
78 RBD	Plaquemines Parish Public Boat Ramp (Shingle Park)
Belle Chasse Industrial Stretch
76.6 – 76.4 LBD	AMAX Metals Recovery
76 RBD – 75.7 LBD	Belle Chasse Ferry
75.6 LBD	Scarsdale Ferry Landing
72.3 RBD	Chevron Oronite, Oak Point Plant Wharf
70.25 RBD	Oakville
69 – 67	Jesuit Bend
Will’s Point/Jesuit Bend/Live Oak Green Space
68 LBD	Will’s Point
Over The Edge Of The Earth
Carlisle / Phoenix / Davant Industrial Stretch
The Last Bottleneck Of Big Industry?
64.4 LBD	2 Tiny Refuges
63.2 – 62 RBD	Conoco Phillips 66 Alliance Refinery
61.8 RBD	Cenex Harvest States Cooperatives, Myrtle Grove Terminal Wharf
60 LBD	Poverty Point
Camping at the Mouth of the Passes and Other Gulf Outlets Below Pverty Point
59.4 LBD	Fort Iberville / Fort De La Boulaye
57 – 56.6 RBD	International Marine Terminals Shiploader Wharf
55 RBD	Junior Crevasse
55.4 – 55.2 LBD	TECO Davant United Bulk Terminal
51.6 LBD	Plaquemines Parish Lock-Up
51.5 RBD	Point Celeste
49 RBD	Plaquemines Parish Water Treatment Intake
48.6 LBD – 48.6 RBD	Pointe A La Hache Ferry
48.6	Ferry Landing/The Town Of Pointe A La Hache
44.5 LBD	Pointe A La Hache
44.4 LBD	Bohemia Beach
44 LBD	Mardi Gras Pass
How Did Mardi Gras Pass Get Its Name?
43.1 RBD	Happy Jack
43 RBD	Happy Jack Primitive Boat Ramp: Final Resupply?
42.8 LBD	Huling Low Water Harbor
39.4 – 38.8 RBD	Freeport-McMoran Sulphur Company
39.7 LBD	Nestor Canal
39 RBD	Freeport Sulphur Company
35.2 LBD	Pointe A La Hache Relief Outlet
35.2 LBD	Bass Enterprises
33 RBD	Sixty Mile Point
Rising Oceans And Disappearing Landscapes
33.2 LBD	Bayou LaMoques/Balandock Canal
32 – 28	Tropical Bend
28 – 31 LBD	Point Pleasant
29.1 RBD	Daybrook Fisheries
29 RBD	Empire Locks
Increasing Fisherman Traffic
27.5 – 24.7 LBD	Chevron Company (Oil & Butane)
26.7 LBD	Chevron Pipeline Company Empire Terminal
25.2 LBD	Ostrica Pass
25.2 RBD	Buras Landing Boat Ramp
24.6 RBD	Abandoned Mooring
24.5 RBD	Motto’s Basin
24.4 – 23 RBD	Ostrica Anchorage
24-23 LBD	Neptune Pass
22 LBD	Bolivar Point
21.4 RBD	Protected Industrial Harbor
20.9 RBD	Lagoons Above Fort Jackson
20.9 RBD	Fort Jackson Boat Ramp
20.8 RBD	Marine Spill Response Corp
Protecting New Orleans
20.1 LBD	Fort St. Philip
20 RBD	Fort Jackson
19.9 LBD	Harvey Pass
19.6 LBD	St. Phillip’s Bend Pass
Plaquemines Bend/Fort Jackson Point
19.5 – 18.5 RBD	Fort Jackson Beach
18.5 – 12.2	Boothville Anchorage
18 LBD	St. Anne’s Pass
16 LBD	Olga Pass
15.5 LBD	Un-Named Pass
14.5 LBD	Un-Named Pass
12.5 LBD	Un-Named Pass
11.9 RBD	Bar Pilot’s Association
History Of The Bar Pilots
11.5 LBD	Sandbar At Mouth Of Baptiste Collette Bayou
11.5 LBD	Baptiste Collette Bayou
-1.9 RBD	Emeline Pass
-2.5 RBD	Fimbel Pass
-6 To -8	Baptiste Collette Jetty
10.5 RBD	Venice, LA, The End Of The Road
Directions To The Marinas In Tiger Pass:
Cypress Cove Marina
Venice Marina

Birdsfoot Delta

10 – 0

VENICE TO GULF OF MEXICO