Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
434.5 LBD Ergon General Store (Tow Boat Supply) Watch for workboats and resupply vessels running in and out of Ergon General Store which services tows on their way up and down the river. Popular location for towboat resupply. Not oriented towards paddlers, but sometimes paddler friendly. They have helped
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
437 - 435 LBD Walnut Hills (Mississippi Loess Bluff #1) The river dives to over 200 feet as it comes around Delta Point through Centennial Cutoff, forced downward by the Walnut Hills upon which Vicksburg sits. The turbulent action of the water carving deeper and deeper through the Mississippi Mud
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
437 RBD Delta Point Opposite the mouth of the Yazoo River and downstream a half mile is an elegant sandbar with a spectacular view of the entire Vicksburg Bluff. You will enjoy the very best panoramic view available from this lovely picnic spot. In one sitting you can see all
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
437 Centennial Cutoff In the high water of 1876 the river sliced across the narrow yoke of land at the base of Centennial Bend, and isolated Vicksburg from the big river, threatening to kill its economy. This natural shift must have come as a demoralizing blow to the “Citadel of
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
Mile 437: Entering the Mississippi Paddlers starting their journey in Vicksburg will begin their Mississippi River adventure here with a bang: this is one of the most dangerous places on the entire Mississippi! Buckle on your lifejacket, batten down the hatches (put away valuables and strap down any essential gear)
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
Paddling through the Narrows below St. Francisville After St. Francisville you will now need to negotiate the tight stretch of river as it flows past the Big Cajun Power Plants and through the narrows under the New Roads Bridge. The river is about one mile wide at the Ferry Landing,
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
10 RBD Mouth of Grand Pass Possible slivers of sand in low water. Cattle grazing on island. CLICK HERE for the Appendix
Caruthersville to Memphis
LBD 768.9 Richardon’s Landing All that remains of Richardon’s Landing is a deep inlet full of powerful boils and eddies and the ragged edge of asphalt that was once Tennessee Highway 59, which was ripped from its final hundred feet by the insatiable appetite of the main
Caruthersville to Memphis
LBD 773.5 Mouth of the Hatchie River The Hatchie River is the biggest volume river of all West Tennessee tributaries, partly due to the fact that it alone was never dredged, straightened, or otherwise channelized. The Wolf, The Loosahatchie, the Obion, and the Forked Deer - all are suffering
Baton Rouge to Venice
129.5 RBD Waterford 3 Owned by Entergy, the Waterford 3 nuclear power plant has one Combustion Engineering two-loop pressurized water reactor. The plant produces 1,218 megawatts of electricity since the site's last refuel in October 2009. It has a dry ambient pressure containment building.
Baton Rouge to Venice
132.4 LBD ArcelorMittal (Bayou Steel) ArcelorMittal, formerly Bayou Steel, produces steel materials including billets, equal leg angles, unequal leg angles, flats, channels, standard beams and wide flange beams. There is also an automobile shredder and barge wrecking service at the facility. ArcelorMittal released 22,686 pounds of toxins into
Baton Rouge to Venice
135.7 LBD DuPont Pontchartrain Works This DuPont Pontchartrain Works contains two plants that each produce materials of importance to paddlers: one that makes neoprene rubber, the other makes Kevlar fiber. DuPont invented neoprene, a synthetic chlorinated rubber, in 1930. DuPont invented Kevlar, a para-aramid synthetic fiber, in 1965. In