|
Contact
|
About Us
|
Subscribe
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
Leave this field empty
Comment:
*
Username:
Screen Name:
User Email:
We will only show your Comment - check here if you want to show your name.
Show Name
Your email will never be shown. The email is in case you want to be contacted or receive more info. All comments added are moderated and will not show up on the website until approved.
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
Introduction
Vicksburg to Natchez
Vicksburg
USFW and the LMRCC
Bluz Cruz
Vicksburg Services and Accommodations
Putting In: Clay Street Landing / Yazoo River
Down the Yazoo to the Mississippi
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
Bluff Beat
The Nice Mississippi Loess Bluffs
No Levees
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
Paddler's Choices Below Vicksburg
Crossing Over to Delta Point
Vicksburg Bridge
Main Channel LBD
Main Channel RBD
LBD Private Boat Ramp
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
Paddling in the Port Gibson Area
Main Channel Route
425 LBD
Entrance to Palmyra Lake Back Channel
Palmyra Lake Back Channel
Hazard: Low Bridge Palmyra Lake
416 RBD
Togo Island Back Channel
414 RBD
The Crossroads
408.5 LBD
Big Black River
HWY 61 Boat Ramp
407.8 LBD
Grand Gulf State Park
Middle Ground Island Back Channel
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?
414 RBD
Palmyra - Togo Island Crossroads
Big Black Bluff, The Grand Gulp (Mississippi Loess Bluff ##2)
410 RBD
Middle Ground Island
Honeymoon Island
404.8 RBD
Port of Claiborne County
Phatwater Mississippi River Challenge Rip
404.2 RBD
Yucatan Ditch
399 LBD
High Bluffs
395 LBD
Bayou Pierre
Mississippi Water Levels
Natchez Gage (NG)
Water Levels and Dikes
Using the Natchez Gage
Louisiana Daytrip: St. Joseph to Waterproof
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
RBD Med / High Water Route - Back Channel
LBD Med / High Water Route - Back Channel
392 RBD
Bondurant Towhead
389 LBD
Rodney Chute
384 LBD
Spithead Towhead
Petit Gulf Hills - Mississippi Loess Bluff ##3
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
The Great Sun - The Natchez People
Adam Elliott, Natchez Outpost of the Quapaw Canoe Company
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
The Natchez Bluff - Mississippi Loess Bluff ##4
Natchez to St. Francisville
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
Wintering Waterfowl
Alligator Gar
Bottomland Harwood Forests
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
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
The Atchafalaya
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 (Old Mouth of the Homochito River)
Clark Creek Natural Area
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
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
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
Bottomland Harwood Forests
Wading Birds
Wintering Waterfowl
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
St. Francisville History
265.5 LBD
Army Corps Work Ramp
265.5 LBD
St. Francisville Mat Casting Field
264.8 LBD
St. Francisville Boat Ramp
St. Francisville to Baton Rouge
Paddling Through the Narrows Below St. Francisville
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
The Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper
Environmental Reporting Phone Numbers
255 - 254.2 LBD
Thompson Creek Bluffs (Mississippi Loess Bluff ##8)
253.6 LBD
©2021 Rivergator |
About Us
|
A Paddler's Guide
|
Itineraries & Route Descriptions
|
River Log
|
River Media