Greenville to Vicksburg
461 LBD Chotard Lake Terrapin Neck Cutoff For a spectacular glimpse into the hidden jungle you’ve been paddling through (but can’t see from the main channel) duck into the narrow opening left bank descending near mile 461. This is the entrance to Chotard Lake. You are in for
Greenville to Vicksburg
RBD 462-459 Willow Island The Main channel runs southeasterly from Cottonwood Bar into Willow Cutoff (1934), and continues south around Willow Island, and then slides southeasterly past the Madison Parish Port at Milliken Bend towards Paw-Paw. The five mile channel between Cottonwood and Willow almost a mile wide and nearly
Greenville to Vicksburg
471-465 Arcadia Point Bar/Cottonwood Bar The main channel runs southwestward several miles out of Fitler and then without turning one way or the other slides in between two big sandbar towheads Arcadia Point Bar and Cottonwood Bar so smoothly and perfectly you would think it had been drawn that
Greenville to Vicksburg
480-474 Fitler Bend Fitler takes its name from a plantation that used to be found around the bottom end of the bend. The main channel of the river flushes vigorously around and out of Ajax (where it has been squeezed) and then erupts in a quarter-mile wide tongue of boils
Greenville to Vicksburg
LBD 487-481 Shipland Wildlife Management Area Opposite Lake Providence and behind the Ajax archipelago canoeists and kayakers can enjoy the 3,500-acre Shipland Wildlife Management Area (WMA) which was established in 1982 on land purchased from the Nature Conservancy. This is the only WMA in the Mississippi batture lands; that
Greenville to Vicksburg
Intro: Greenville to Vicksburg: Welcome to the 2013 update to the Rivergator: Paddlers Guide to the Lower Mississippi River! This section describes the big river as it flows through the Lower Delta, the last 100 miles of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, from Greenville, the Queen City of the Delta, to Vicksburg,
Greenville to Vicksburg
LBD 487-481 Shipland Wildlife Management Area Opposite Lake Providence and behind the Ajax archipelago canoeists and kayakers can enjoy the 3,500-acre Shipland Wildlife Management Area (WMA) which was established in 1982 on land purchased from the Nature Conservancy. This is the only WMA in the Mississippi batture lands; that
Greenville to Vicksburg
LBD 494-487 Baleshead/Stack Island/Ben Lamond The river opens up below Mayersville and Wilson Point Island into a virtual ocean of open water and hypnotic distances that seem to shrink even the biggest tow/barge packages into flea-sized morsels. Distances are difficult to calculate here. As you paddle downstream
Greenville to Vicksburg
LBD 496 Tennis Court Landing Paddlers will find Mayersville to be a suitable put-in or take-out with a few precautions. There are two ramps are located here. The older one is frequently bogged down in mud (below medium water 25GG). The new one was recently crushed by an upstream tow
Greenville to Vicksburg
RBD 500-495 Wilson Point Bar After getting flushed out Opossum Chute and the narrows at Corregidor, the canoeist or kayaker washes out into a gentle bend to the South at Mayersville past another Bunge elevator, a public boat ramp (Tennis Court Ramp) and a small refinery (Magnolia Resources, Inc). At
Greenville to Vicksburg
LBD 505-502 Corregidor Bar Low-lying bar with no protection until you reach its bottom end (around 502). Goes completely under around 30GG. In high water levels you can stay left bank descending all the way around Sarah’s Cut-Off before jumping back into the main channel at Opossum Chute above
Greenville to Vicksburg
Old River RBD 503 Chute of Old River Lake After passing Bunch’s Cut-Off another opening reveals itself RBD a half-mile downstream: the narrow Chute into Old River Lake. This opening is less enticing than its close neighbor at Bunch’s, but well worth the inspection if you have the