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Paddler's Guide
Introduction
Foreword
Safety
Canoe Self Rescue
Kayak Self Rescue
Paddle Signals
SUP Self Rescue
Whistle Signals
How to Paddle the Big River
Beginner's Options
Forecasting and Monitoring River Levels
Main Channel vs. Back Channel
Monitoring River Rise with a Stick
Options for Moderate (Intermediate) Paddlers
Paddling Through a Lock and Dam
Safe Travel Through a Notched or Overtopped Back Channel Dike
What Color is the Mississippi River?
When to Paddle the Big River
River Index
River Log
Introduction/Foreword
St. Louis to Caruthersville
Preamble
Introduction
St Louis
St Louis to Cairo
Cairo To Caruthersville
Appendix
Caruthersville to Memphis
Introduction
Caruthersville to Osceola
Osceola To Shelby Forest
Shelby Forest to Memphis
Memphis to Helena
Introduction
Memphis to Tunica
Tunica to Helena
Helena to Friars
Appendix
Helena to Greenville
St. Francis to Helena
Helena to Island 63
Island 63 to Hurricane
Hurricane to Rosedale
Rosedale to Arkansas City
Arkansas City to Greenville
Greenville to Vicksburg
Introduction
Greenville to Lake Providence
Lake Providence to Vicksburg
Appendix
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
Introduction
Vicksburg to Natchez
Natchez to St. Francisville
St. Francisville to Baton Rouge
Appendix
Atchafalaya River
Atchafalaya Upper
Atchafalaya Lower
Appendix
Baton Rouge To Venice
Introduction
Baton Rouge to New Orleans
New Orleans to Venice
Appendix
Birdsfoot Delta
Introduction
Venice to Gulf
Appendix
Resources
Essential Paddler's Links
Helpful Links for Paddlers
Leave No Trace
Lower Mississippi River Dispatch
Maps
News
Water Trails in Louisiana
Water Trails in Mississippi
Sources for More Information
Glossary
Press Kit
Other
River Levels
Shuttling
Duration
Difficulty
Type
Scenery
Attractions
History
Mileage
Access
River Media
Book Shop
Map Shop
River Music
River Photo Gallery
River Video
Map Shop
Map Shop
Book Shop
The Lower Mississippi River Water Trail
Appendix
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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