Greenville to Vicksburg
RBD 503.5 Bunch's Cut-Off Bunches and Old River (see below) are two oxbow lakes that curve outwards right bank descending into Louisiana like emphatic dashes scribed by an impressionist painter. Of course the creator is the Mississippi River in her endlessly transformative power of moving mud and
Greenville to Vicksburg
RBD 510-506 Cracraft Bar A series of sandy islands have formed around the Cracraft Lower Dikes affording beautiful campsites, picnic sites, and endless exploration at all water levels. At low water you must stay main channel of course, but you can canoe or kayak into any of the many inlets
Greenville to Vicksburg
RBD 512 (and up back channel) Grand Lake landing Boat Ramp Narrow public boat ramp laid over the muddy bank bottoms of Grand Lake into Matthew’s Bend. Composed of broken slabs of concrete and cramped parking. This rotted concrete ramp reaches Grand Lake even at the lowest of water
Greenville to Vicksburg
RBD 514-512 Worthington Cutoff, Matthews Bend, Grand Lake, Island 88 The river concentrates around the bottom end of Kentucky Bend and slams directly into the Arkansas shoreline opposite with such force that it tore up all the fields and almost busted the levee in 1997 and in 2011, and a
Greenville to Vicksburg
LBD 515-512 Leota Bar/Cracraft Chute After Rounding Kentucky Bend the river turns southward around Leota Bar and runs into the Cracraft Chute. This is one of the most stunningly beautiful sections of river anywhere along the Lower Mississippi River. It should be considered a wild and scenic river so
Greenville to Vicksburg
RBD 519-515 Kentucky Bend After running mostly southward for ten miles below the Greenville Bridge, the river finally curves westward in an elegant swoop around the densely forested Kentucky Island (Kentucky Bend Bar on the maps). This is the best remote camping in the area. Kentucky Bend and Island area
Greenville to Vicksburg
RBD 523-520 Island 86 There is a thin sliver of Island that runs three miles long at low water and less at high water. Possible back channel route above 25 GG, and good hidden campsites found along some of the sandy bluffs on the mainland side near RBD 520.
Greenville to Vicksburg
LBD 525 American Cutoff/Lake Lee Viewed from the sky American Bar has the shape of a mallard’s head with the beak pointing downstream. At medium water levels (above 30GG) you can follow the American Cutoff and paddle behind Lakeport Towhead/American Bar. The Mississippi River broke through a
Greenville to Vicksburg
LBD 529-525.5 Lakeport Towhead/American Bar After sliding through the narrows past Sunnyside and underneath the monumental wonders of the new Greenville Bridge the downstream will be flushed vigorously outwards into the center of the mile wide main channel not far below. You will paddle over eleven major transcontinental
Greenville to Vicksburg
530.7 Greenville Bridge The Greenville Bridge is the only bridge in the 200 miles of river between Helena and Vicksburg. This striking new concrete & steel cable-stay bridge was completed in 2010 after 19 years of planning and construction. At the time of its opening, it was the longest
Greenville to Vicksburg
RBD 531.5 Sunnyside Landing Sunnyside is a public boat ramp built from broken concrete and tattered revetment which drops into the river at the edge of a large eddy. Paddlers needing access be ready for fast waters and a strong rip-eddy with large boils and small whirlpools. Land access
Greenville to Vicksburg
534 Vaucluse Landing The top end of Chicot Lake, the largest oxbow lake in North America, is found just through the woods and over the levee from Vaucluse Landing. In the geologic history of a meandering waterway, a free-flowing river periodically cuts off its own bends and isolates them in