Mile 766.0 LBD — 763 Below Richardson Landing Dikes & Bar

Huge sandbar at low water, small at medium, completely disappears in high water.  Best picnicking top end.  Not recommended for camping unless darkness is settling on you and you have no other option.  Exposed location, difficult access to the shelter of trees and no dependable firewood sources.  Avoid camping on bottom end.  Further down this bar is a favorite hangout/playground for a thriving community of 4-wheelers, mostly ATVs, whose hell-raising riders throng along the beaches on any nice summer or fall day, particularly thick on weekends.

Dyess Arkansas, Birthplace of Johnny Cash Five Feet High And Rising:

The great country music troubadour Johnny Cash was born in Dyess Arkansas, which is not too far behind Island 35, over the levee and the fields on the other side of “blues” Highway 61.  He grew up on a family farm deep within the Mississippi River floodplain.  His childhood was filled with bayous, backwaters, mud and of course the seasonal flooding of the big river.