Introduction |
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Vicksburg |
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USFW and the LMRCC |
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Bluz Cruz |
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Vicksburg Services and Accommodations |
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Putting In: Clay Street Landing / Yazoo River |
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Down the Yazoo to the Mississippi |
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437 |
Entering the Mississippi |
437 |
Delta Point |
437 |
Centennial Cutoff |
434.5 LBD |
Ergon General Store (Tow Boat Supply) |
437 – 435 LBD |
Walnut Hills (Mississippi Loess Bluff ##1) |
Greatest Dust Storm Ever |
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Bluff Beat |
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The Nice Mississippi Loess Bluffs |
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No Levees |
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436.5 LBD |
City of Vicksburg Riverfront Park |
435.7 LBD |
Vicksburg Bridges: US 80 and I-20 |
The Zen od Paddling the Big River |
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Paddler’s Choices Below Vicksburg |
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Crossing Over to Delta Point |
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Vicksburg Bridge |
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Main Channel LBD |
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Main Channel RBD |
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LBD Private Boat Ramp |
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433.2 LBD |
Baxter Wilson Steam Plant |
432 – 430 RBD |
Racetrack Towhead Back Channel |
432 – 430 RBD |
Racetrack Towhead Main Channel |
431 – 424 LBD |
Below Racetrack Dikes / Towhead |
430 – 427 RBD |
Reid Bedford Bend |
427.3 RBD |
Reid Bedford Point |
426 LBD |
Letourneau Public Boat Launch |
426.5 LBD |
Hennessey’s Bayou |
426 LBD |
Letourneau |
Palmyra / Togo / Middle Ground Island |
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Paddling in the Port Gibson Area |
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Main Channel Route |
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425 LBD |
Entrance to Palmyra Lake Back Channel |
Palmyra Lake Back Channel |
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Hazard: Low Bridge Palmyra Lake |
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416 RBD |
Togo Island Back Channel |
414 RBD |
The Crossroads |
408.5 LBD |
Big Black River |
HWY 61 Boat Ramp |
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407.8 LBD |
Grand Gulf State Park |
Middle Ground Island Back Channel |
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404 RBD |
Yucatan Ditch |
405 – 401 RBD |
Coffee Point Dikes |
423 RBD |
Diamond Cut-Off |
421 – 419 RBD |
Newtown Bend Sandbar |
419.6 LBD |
Lake Karnac |
417 – 414 RBD |
Togo Island |
416.5 LBD |
“Big Momma” Dike |
418 – 413 RBD |
Big Black Island |
417 – 414 RBD |
Togo Island Bend & Dikes |
Mississippi River Dead End? |
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414 RBD |
Palmyra – Togo Island Crossroads |
Big Black Bluff, The Grand Gulp (Mississippi Loess Bluff ##2) |
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410 RBD |
Middle Ground Island |
Honeymoon Island |
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404.8 RBD |
Port of Claiborne County |
Phatwater Mississippi River Challenge Rip |
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404.2 RBD |
Yucatan Ditch |
399 LBD |
High Bluffs |
395 LBD |
Bayou Pierre |
Mississippi Water Levels |
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Natchez Gage (NG) |
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Water Levels and Dikes |
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Using the Natchez Gage |
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Louisiana Daytrip: St. Joseph to Waterproof |
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396.4 RBD |
St. Joseph Boat Ramp |
396.4 RBD |
Lake Bruin State Park |
396.4 RBD |
Fish Tale Grill / Lake Bruin Lodge & Country Store |
395 LBD |
Mouth of Bayou Pierre |
Main Channel St. Jo to Waterproof |
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RBD Med / High Water Route – Back Channel |
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LBD Med / High Water Route – Back Channel |
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392 RBD |
Bondurant Towhead |
389 LBD |
Rodney Chute |
384 LBD |
Spithead Towhead |
Petit Gulf Hills – Mississippi Loess Bluff ##3 |
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394 LBD |
Bruinsburg Landing |
392 LBD |
Rodney (Ghost Town) |
390 – 389.5 RBD |
Brown’s Field Island |
385.9 LBD |
Below Brown’s Field Wetlands |
389 – 387 LBD |
Cottage Bend Islands |
389 LBD |
Rodney Lake Side Trip |
381 |
Waterproof Landing |
381 – 374 RBD |
Waterproof Island |
373 – 371 LBD |
Fairchild (Skull) Island |
Natchez Bluffs |
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The Great Sun – The Natchez People |
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Adam Elliott, Natchez Outpost of the Quapaw Canoe Company |
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370 LBD |
Greens Bayou |
369 |
Highline |
370 – 368 LBD |
Opposite Rifle Point |
369 – 367.5 RBD |
Rifle Point |
368 – 366 LBD |
Bluff Bars |
367 LBD |
Devil’s Punchbowl |
367.5 RBD |
Opening to Old River – Top End (Marengo Bend Lake) |
367 – 365 LBD |
Remnants of Cypress Forest |
365 LBD |
Opening to Old River – Bottom End (Merengo Bend Lake) |
363.5 LBD |
Natchez-Under-The-Hill |
Some Natchez Stories |
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The Natchez Bluff – Mississippi Loess Bluff ##4 |
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363 |
Natchez Bridge |
363 RBD |
Vidalia Boat Ramp |
362.8 RBD |
Vidalia Boat Ramp (Lower) |
361 LBD |
St. Catherine Creek(New Mouth) |
360 – 356.5 RBD |
Natchez Islands |
355 LBD |
Carthage Point |
358 – 355 LBD |
Carthage Point Towhead |
356.5 – 360 RBD |
Morville / Jeffries Landing |
352.5 LBD |
St. Catherine National Wildlife Refuge |
Wood Storks |
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Wintering Waterfowl |
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Alligator Gar |
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Bottomland Harwood Forests |
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352.5 – 346.5 LBD |
Opposite Warnicotte / Esperance Archipelago |
348.6 RBD |
Esperance Landing |
348 – 344 RBD |
Esperance Point |
347.2 LBD |
Old Mouth of St. Catherine Creek |
348 – 345 LBD |
Ellis Cliffs (Mississippi Loess Bluff ##5) |
344 RBD |
Esperance Bottom |
341.3 RBD |
Fairview / Old River |
The Mamie S Barret |
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346 – 341 |
Glasscock Cut-Off |
341.1 LBD |
Washout Bayou / Homochitto River |
340.1 RBD |
Oil Well & Boat Ramp |
340 – 338 LBD |
Buck Island |
338.5 – 334 RBD |
Fritz Island |
340 – 332 |
Dead Man’s Bend |
332 – 328 |
Jackson Point / Widow Graham Bend |
326 RBD |
Union Point |
325.5 – 322.5 RBD |
Palmetto Island |
325 – 320 |
Three Rivers WMA and Red River NWR |
323 LBD |
Artonish Boat Ramp |
323 – 321 RBD |
Black Hawk Island |
321 – 319 LBD |
Palmetto Bend |
Alternate Route to the Gulf of Mexico: The Atchafalaya River |
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The Atchafalaya |
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316.3 RBD |
Hydro Intake – Old River Control Structure |
Short History of the Old River Control Structure |
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314.6 RBD |
Main Intake – Old River Control Structure |
313 LBD |
Buffalo River (Old Mouth of the Homochito River) |
Clark Creek Natural Area |
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313.7 RBD |
Knox Landing |
311.7 RBD |
Auxiliary Intake — Old River Control Structure |
311.7 LBD |
Clark Creek |
311.7 – 310 LBD |
Tunica Hills Below Clark Creek (Mississippi Loess Bluff ##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 |
303.7 |
Old River Lock and Dam: Entrance to the Atchafalaya River |
The Atchafalaya River: Best Rout to the Gulf |
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306 – 302 |
Back Channel of Shreve’s Bar |
306 – 302 RBD |
Main Channel of Shreve’s Bar |
304 RBD |
Carr Point |
302.8 RBD |
Torras Landing |
302.5 – 298 LBD |
Hog Point Sandbar |
299 – 298 LBD |
Hog Point Towhead |
300.2 – 298 RBD |
Miles Bar Towhead |
297 RBD |
Raccourci Runout / Monday Lake |
295.5 RBD |
Leatherman Point |
294.7 LBD |
Sugar Lake Bayou |
293 LBD |
Tunica Bayou |
293 – 291.5 LBD |
Tunica Hills (Mississippi Loess Bluffs ##7) |
Tunica Hills WMA |
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293 – 290 RBD |
Tunica Bar Towhead |
291.9 LBD |
Little Hollywood |
291.8 LBD |
Como Bayou |
289.8 LBD |
Polly Creek |
289.5 – 289 RBD |
Greewood Bar |
287.5 LBD |
Greewood Dune |
287.5 – 284 LBD |
Little Island |
283.3 LBD |
Sebastopol |
281.5 RBD |
Below Burnette Point |
281.5 – 280.5 RBD |
New Tex Landing |
281 – 278 LBD |
Morgan’s Bend (Iowa Point) |
278.5 – 277.8 LBD |
Iowa Point Bottom End of Morgan’s Bar |
279.6 – 279 RBD |
Morganza Spillway Entrance |
278.8 RBD |
Cement Silo |
277.2 RBD |
Morganza Crevasse |
276.6 RBD |
Protected Dune |
275.5 RBD |
Before Boies Point “Hidey Hole” |
276 – 275 LBD |
Collapsing Muddy Banks |
275 – 270 LBD |
Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge |
Cypress-Tupelo Swamp |
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Bottomland Harwood Forests |
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Wading Birds |
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Wintering Waterfowl |
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273 – 270 RBD |
St. Maurice Island |
274.4 LBD |
Hardwick’s Ditch / Access to the Co-Champion Cypress Tree |
270 LBD |
Double Silo Hunting Club “Cajun Condo” |
268.5 – 268 RBD |
Graveyard Landing |
266.2 LBD |
Bayou Sara |
266 LBD |
Old St. Francisville Ferry Landing |
St. Francisville, LA |
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St. Francisville History |
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265.5 LBD |
Army Corps Work Ramp |
265.5 LBD |
St. Francisville Mat Casting Field |
264.8 LBD |
St. Francisville Boat Ramp |
Paddling Through the Narrows Below St. Francisville |
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264.7 LBD |
Small Bayou |
263 – 261 LBD |
Sandy Dunes Dugan Landing |
263 RBD |
Big Cajun Power Plant I and II |
261.8 |
John James Audubon (New Roads) Bridge |
260.1 LBD |
Crown Vantage Outflow |
259.9 LBD |
Transmontaigne Docking |
259 RBD |
Big Cajun I Power Plant |
259 – 256 LBD |
Fancy Point Towhead |
257 RBD |
Hermitage Dune |
256 – 255.5 LBD |
Fancy Point Sandbar |
255.5 – 253.8 RBD |
Point Menoir |
255.5 LBD |
Thompson Creek |
255 LBD |
Georgia Pacific Port Hudson Paper Mill |
257 RBD |
Hermitage Dune |
Water Quality |
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The Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper |
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Environmental Reporting Phone Numbers |
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255 – 254.2 LBD |
Thompson Creek Bluffs (Mississippi Loess Bluff ##8) |
253.6 LBD |
Amoco Pipelnie Dock |
252.2 – 246.5 LBD |
Profit Island |
252.8 – 252.2 LBD |
Profit Island Chute (Entrance) |
Profit Island Chute Weir |
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Warning!! |
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Profit Island Chute (Industrial Area) |
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250.3 RBD |
Bald Eagle Nest |
250.2 RBD |
Wreckage of Crane Boat |
247.2 RBD |
Smithfield Boat Ramp |
246.5 – 246 LBD |
Profit Island Chute (Exit) |
The Monmouth Disaster |
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246.2 RBD |
Small Dune |
246.5 – 245.8 LBD |
Sandbar at Bottom of Profit Chute |
First Sighting of Baton Rouge (Still 12 Miles Downstream) |
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245 LBD |
Devil’s Swamp Bayou |
“The Very Bottom” |
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Baton Rouge Crossroads |
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241 – 239 LBD |
Thomas Point (Mallet Bend) |
239 – 235 LBD |
Allendale Reach (Thomas Point to Wilkerson Point) |
239 – 235 LBD |
Allendale Reach: Fleeted Barges |
235.8 LBD |
Devil’s Swamp Bayou |
235.8 LBD |
Bayou Baton Rouge |
235.2 LBD |
Baton Rouge Harbor |
235.2 LBD |
Baton Rouge North Wastewater Treatment Plant Outfall |
236 233 LBD |
Mulatto Bend (Wilkerson Point) |
235 RBD |
Point Place Landing (Wilkerson Point) |
234.2 RBD |
Wilkerson Landing Boat Ramp |
235 – 234.7 LBD |
Southern Univ., Istrouma (Scott’s) Bluff, Mississippi Loess Bluff ##9 |
233.9 RBD |
US 190 and Railroad Bridge (Old Bridge) |
Navigating Baton Rouge Harbor |
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233.7 LBD |
Monte Sano Bayou |
Supertankers? Welcome to Chemical Corridor |
Monte Sano Bayou |
232.9 RBD |
CSS Arkansas |
233.8 LBD |
Formosa Plastics Corp., Baton Rouge North Wharf |
233 LBD |
Kinder Morgan (Exxon Petroleum Coke) |
232.2 LBD |
ExxonMobil |
232.2 LBD |
ExxonMobil Graffiti Wall |
231.8 RBD |
Placid Refining |
231.9 LBD |
Sunrise, Louisiana |
230 LBD |
Welcome to Baton Rouge: Downtown Riverfront |
Baton Rouge Sites and Services of Interest to Paddlers |
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230.1 RBD |
West Baton Rouge Tourist Commission, Court Street Landing |
229.6 LBD |
City Excursion Wharf AKA “The Paperclips” |
229.6 LBD |
USS Kidd |
229.4 LBD |
Argosy Casino |
229.3 LBD |
I-10 Highway Bridge “New Bridge” |
229.1 LBD |
Glass Beach (Baton Rouge Boat Ramp) |
229 LBD |
Old Municipal Dock |
229.1 RBD |
Greater Baton Rouge Dock No.1 Wharf: Community Coffee |
How to Brew a Great-Tasting Pot of River-Rat Coffee |
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228.3 RBD |
Intercostal Waterway (Port Allen Lock & Dam) |
Resupply from Intercostal Waterway Boat Ramp (Under HWY 1) |
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227.4 LBD |
LSU |
Baton Rouge Gage (BG) |
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Water Levels According to the Baton Rouge Gage (BG) |
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Leaving Baton Rouge and Heading Downstream |
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Welcome to Sola (South Louisiana)! |
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Baton Rouge to New Orleans to Venice |
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Venice to the Gulf |
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About “Cancer Alley” |
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Possible Campsites Along the Lower Mississippi River |
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Baton Rouge to New Orleans |
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220 LBD |
Duncan Point |
214 – 215 RBD |
Manchac Point |
210 LBD |
Bar Above Plaquemines LBD > 20 |
209 LBD |
Plaquemines LBD > 30 |
195 LBD |
Bayou Goula Sandbar LBD > 25 |
194 LBD |
Point Claire LBD > 35 |
177 LBD |
Eighty-One Mile Point LBD > 30 |
171 LBD |
Point Houmas > 30 |
154 LBD |
College Point > 30? |
149 LBD |
Pauline Bar (Magnolia Landing) LBD > 30 |
143 LBD |
Belle Point LBD > 30? |
132 RBD |
Bonnet Carre Island > 25? |
130 LBD |
Thirty-Five Mile Point LBD > 30 |
129 LBD |
Bonnet Carre Upper LBD > 40 |
127 LBD |
Bonne Carre Lower LBD > 40 |
109 LBD |
Opposite Twelve Mile Point RBD > 35? |
95 LBD |
Algier’s Point |
94.7 LBD |
The Moonwalk — French Quarter and French Market |
11 LBD |
Mouth of Baptiste Collette Bayou |
10 RBD |
Mouth of Grand Pass |
Appendix |
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