The Lower Mississippi River Water Trail

Memphis to Helena

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

Introduction
Memphis to Tunica
736 LBD	Memphis, Tennessee, Mud Island Harbor
Buoys and Docks
Floating Underneath a Bridge
734.7	Lower Bridges/Engineer’s Bar
734.7	The Frisco Bridge
734.7	The Harahan Bridge
734.7	The Ghost Bunker
734.7	The Old Bridge (Memphis & Arkansas Bridge)
733	President’s Island
Fleeted Barges
732 LBD	Hole in the Wall ##2
727.3	TVA Transmission Lines
727.3 RBD	The Wreck of the Raft
Tennessee Valley Authority
725.5 LBD	Entrance to McKellar Lake
7 Miles Up harbor Riverside Park Marina On McKellar Lake
724	T.E. Maxon Wastewater Treatement Facility
Paddler’s Routes Below Memphis
727 – 712	Dismal Point/Ensley Bar/Cow Island Bend Area
726 – 717	Armstrong/Dismal Point/Ensley Bar
720	Josie Harry Bar
718 – 713	Cow Island Bend
Goodbye Tennessee, Hullo Mississippi
The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta and the Blues
711 – 705	Cat Island No.50
710.8 LBD	Starr Landing
712 – 695	Paddler’s Routes Around Cat Island and the Casinos
Pickett Dikes Back Channel
639.8 RBD	Tunica Riverpark Museum Boat Ramp
Tunica Riverpark Museum
Basket Bar Dikes/Porter lake Dikes
693.8 RBD	Lost Lake Pass
703	Buck Island (No. 53)
701	Gold Strike Casino
700	Fitzgerald’s Casino
Tunica to Helena
700	Basket Bar
Paddler’s Routes Through Commerce and Mhoon Bends
695 – 690	Commerce Bend
692.5 RBD	Peter’s Boat Ramp
690	Rabbit Island
Switching to thhe Helena Gage
Dikes and Water Levels
687.5	Mhoon Landing
689 – 685	Mhoon Bar
690 – 683	Mhoon Bend
682 – 679	Whiskey Chute/Walnut Bend
680	Whitehall Crevasse
Paddler’s Routes Below Walnut Bend
Stumpy Island, Shoo Fly Bar and Tunica Lake
Main Channel
677.4 LBD	Tunica Runout
Behind Shoo Fly Bar
Stumpy Island
Walnut Bend Boat Ramp
Tunica Lake Boat Ramp
679 RBD	Walnut Bend Boat Ramp
679 – 677	Hardin Cut-Off
677.4 LBD	Pass Into Tunica Lake
677 – 676	Shoo Fly Bar
677 – 674	Stumpy Island
674.5	Harbert Point
672 RBD	Mouth of the St. Francis River
Primitive Landing at the Mouth of the St. Francis Rive – Conditions
RBD 3 Miles up St. Francis River	Three Mile Ramp
Daytrip: St. Francis to Helena
St. Francis to Helena: Paddler’s Descriptions
For Intermedite Paddlers: Right Bank Route
For Expert Paddlers: Left Bank Route
St. Francis River
671 – 673 LBD	St. Francis Bar
669 LBD	Flower Lake Dikes
668 RBD	(A View of) Crowley’s Ridge D
668-663 RBD	Buck Island (Prairie Point Towhead)
668-663 RBD	Buck Island (Prairie Point Towhead)
665.5 LBD	Trotter’s Pass
663 RBD	Helena Harbor
Helena Boat Ramps
663 RBD	Helena-West Helena
Quapaw Canoe Company – Helena Outpost
Helena’s “Low Road” Into St. Francis National Forest
King Biscuit Blues Festival (2nd Week of October)
Helena to Friars
661.6	Helena Bridge (Hernando De Soto Bridge – US HWY 49)
663 RBD	Leaving Helena Harbor
Fleeted Barges
Small Towns in Harbors
Buoys and Other Stationary Objects
Highlights of Civilization
Pollution Within the Helena Industrial Reach
661.6	Helena Bridge (Hernando De Soto Bridge – US HWY 49)
657 LBD
How to Get Into the Old Entrance of the Yazoo Pass
LBD: Alternate Route to Vicksburg: Yazoo Pass
Yazoo Pass Milage
Rivers & Robert Johnson
656 LBD	East Montezuma Bar
657 – 654 RBD	Montezuma Towhead
654.7 LBD	Montezuma Landing
Shuttle Route Montezuma to Clarksdale
652 LBD	Friars Point
652.2 LBD	Friars Point Landing (Unimproved)
What’s to Come Further Downstream
Appendix

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
Birdsfoot Delta	10 – 0	VENICE TO GULF OF MEXICO