Mile 143.4 LBD — Marquez

John Ruskey

26 Apr 2026 � 1 min read

Good low/med water picnic or camp place, highest sandbar might be dry up to 17NO.

The cut-out bank at Marquez creates some powerful eddies that sometimes reach into the main channel and can force you into oncoming freighters or cause you to get spun around, depending which side of the eddy line you find yourself in. You can find low and medium camps/picnic sites on the sandbars strewn along the Marquez Eddy. The low bars are 4WD accessible in low water. At the bottom of the eddy one bar reaches up higher than the others. This high bar stays dry up to 15NO, maybe even up to 17NO at the edge of the forest. More sandbars are strewn up in high locations above the rip-rap between the Marquez (143.4 LBD) and Belle Point (142.4) lights, making this a good bet for highwater shelter.

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