St. Louis to Caruthersville
930 - 928 LBD Williams Landing Bar Low water bar emerges only in lowest of water levels. Two blue holes formed in 2011 flood, one in armpit of river near LBD 930, and one behind Samuel’s Landing at LBD 928. The high bank forest is a jungle of berries,
St. Louis to Caruthersville
930 - 927 RBD Moore Islands Archipelago of low lying islands covered with lines of young willows that go under in medium water, around 25 CG. Hence good low and medium water camps, up to 20 CG, but underwater otherwise.
St. Louis to Caruthersville
934 LBD Chalk Cliff Bluffs (3rd Kentucky Loess Bluff) Every one of the Kentucky Bluffs is unique and worth a visit for any of you naturalists or explorers amongst the paddlers. The 3rd bluff first comes to view as you round Belmont Point past all of the Ingram fleeting. This
St. Louis to Caruthersville
934 - 933 RBD Sandy Bluffs Opposite Wolf Island Bar There are two sandy bluffs opposite the top end of the Wolf Island Bar, one at 934 and one around 933 RBD, both would be good protection in north wind.
St. Louis to Caruthersville
935 - 930 LBD Wolf Island Chute The top end of the back channel is cut off by a long wall dike angled upstream which reaches halfway across the channel and forcefully shoves the majority of the river away from its old channel into what used to be the back
St. Louis to Caruthersville
935 - 934 LBD South Columbus Island Below the last of Ingram fleeting along mile 935.3 paddlers following the Kentucky shore left bank descending will find an eddy and some sandbars and a low place in the woods. This is the top of an old island that has joined
St. Louis to Caruthersville
935 - 930 LBD Wolf Island Bar Wolf Island is the first “big island” below the mouth of the Ohio River, with a tall bluff of sand that forms along top end and is dry up to flood stage, and a long, long tail of sand that emerges in low
St. Louis to Caruthersville
936.9 LBD Ingram Drydock Drydock operation along Columbus waterfront for servicing tows and barges. Ingram is the largest tow company operating on the Mississippi River with headquarters in Nashville. Ingram is known to be paddler friendly, but always paddle defensively and always yield right of way to all tows.
St. Louis to Caruthersville
937 LBD Iron Bank Light The peculiar color and strange appearance of the high bluff at Columbus, Kentucky, attracted the attention of some of the earliest explorers, who commented on it more than a century before the founding of the town. French explorers, having failed to find the gold and
St. Louis to Caruthersville
937.0 LBD Columbus Boat Ramp Columbus Boat Ramp is a wide concrete boat ramp laid over rip-rap in large eddy above the Columbus Service Dock, with a turnaround and parking above. If making landing be careful to to overshoot entrance and get stuck above docked barges. Especially dangerous entrance
St. Louis to Caruthersville
937.2 LBD Columbus-Belmont State Park In the 1670s Frenchmen Marquette and Joliet explored the area where Columbus now stands. Originally called “Iron Banks” due to the purported deposits of iron ore in the bluffs along the river (which turned out to be a falsehood), the settlement changed its name
St. Louis to Caruthersville
938 - 937 LBD 2nd Kentucky Loess Bluff Columbus-Belmont State Park sits on top of the next spectacular display of loess geology at the 2nd Kentucky Loess Bluff. This bluff and the nearby town of Columbus was once called “Iron Bank” for the striking red coloring staining the cliffs. Paddlers