atchafalaya-river

Mile 310.0 RBD — Point Breeze

John Ruskey

26 Apr 2026 � 1 min read

Once safely below the Auxiliary Intake channel of the Old River Control Structure, you can find a very tall bluff of sand, the tallest in the area, which makes the best highwater camping available all the way up to flood stage (and beyond). At low water, this giant sand dune might seem like too much to haul your gear to the top of to find a flat place to lay your head. Continue downstream. As you follow the dune down the river it descends along its two mile length until bottoming out in a marshy willow wetlands (at low and medium water levels). Good camping, but you might go mad with the all night sounding of the Auxiliary Channel warning horn, which bellows mournfully on and off, on and off, on and off, and seems to get louder and more maddening after dark.

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