Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
229.4 LBD Argosy Casino If you think you see a steamboat tied up below the USS Kidd wipe your eyes and save your pocketbook for better things to gamble on, like where you’ll find your next Po-Boy sandwich or Abita Beer. Argosy is now known as the Belle
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
229.6 LBD City Excursion Wharf AKA “The Paperclips” Locally referred to as “the Paperclips” for reasons that should be obvious when you see it, this is where the American Queen docks when she is in town. Otherwise it doesn’t get much use.
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
229.6 LBD USS Kidd A fletcher-class destroyer, first launched in 1943 and sailed extensively during WWII and the Korean War now serves as a museum and memorial in downtown Baton Rouge. Definitely worth exploring for any history or marine buff.
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
230.1 RBD West Baton Rouge Tourist Commission, Court Street Landing The City of Port Allen has made their old ferry landing into a nice public park. Paddlers should be able to find a place to make landfall but be careful the main channel comes rather close to the right
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
231.9 LBD Sunrise, Louisiana Sunrise was a small town of about 9 “city blocks“ between LA Hwy 1 and the Mississippi River Road at around mile 231.9 LBD. Surrounded by cane fields it had its beginnings in property purchased by former slave Alexander Banes from a white plantation
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
231.8 RBD Placid Refining This second-rate refinery takes all of the low grade crude (“sour crude”) refused by ExxonMobil (who only accepts “sweet crude”). This makes a convenient location for business. When a freighter comes up the Mississippi with payload full of trashy petroleum the highbrow ExxonMobil scientists turn
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
232.2 LBD ExxonMobil And now the whopper with the big ships, buckle yourself in for the experience. The fortress-like ExxonMobil Refinery can no longer call itself the largest refinery in the world, but it is still a megalith of pipes and cat crackers, and is the 3rd largest in
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
232.2 LBD ExxonMobil Graffiti Wall The ExxonMobil port is where you are likely to make your first encounter with sea-going ships carrying petroleum products to and from remote corners of the globe. Yield to any traffic, and stay tuned in to VHF 67 for any planned activity. We’re
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
233.0 LBD Kinder Morgan (EXXON Petroleum Coke) The ExxonMobil Petroleum Coke terminal operated by Kinder Morgan. Watch for workboats, and towboats coming from unexpected places behind dock pilings.
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
233.8 LBD Formosa Plastics Corp., Baton Rouge North Wharf Listed on USACOE charts as Formosa Plastics Corp., Baton Rouge North Wharf, the wharf is currently under repair and the dilapidated facility behind it is currently owned by CEMUS and is the former site of Kaiser Aluminum. Under rehabilitation construction
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
232.9 RBD CSS Arkansas Not visible but of historic interest, the USS Arkansas is buried in the mud under the levee 1.4 miles below where the 190 bridge comes to land in Port Allen (690 feet past river mile 233). The CSS Arkansas was a Confederate Ironclad warship
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
233.7 LBD Monte Sano Bayou Incorrectly listed as “Bayou Baton Rouge” on USACE river charts, Monte Sano Bayou enters the Mississippi between the Formosa Plastics Corp., Baton Rouge North Wharf and Formosa Plastics Corp., Baton Rouge Plant Wharf (the first two docks you encounter after the US 190 bridge