River Log section: Atchafalaya River
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121.4 LBD Mr. Charlie: The International Petroleum Museum Almost directly across the river from the Berwick Public Boat Ramp you might notice an floating oil derrick anchored up to the shore. This is the Mr. Charlie, and it’s tied up at the International Petroleum Museum, which claims to
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121.4 RBD Berwick Public Boat Ramp The Berwick Public Boat Ramp is the only public boat ramp in the downtown. Double wide boat ramp within protected harbor. Excellent launch place, end place or meet place. You can park your car here and leave overnight, or for a week, with
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121.3 Morgan City Texas and New Orleans Railroad Bridge This innocuous railroad bridge is a milestone for long distance paddlers: it is the very last bridge on the entire Atchafalaya-Mississippi River system. Congratulations paddler! After paddling under your first bridge below Lake Itasca (the 1st 3 bridges are actually
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121.2 LBD Morgan City Downtown Landing Paddlers wanting or needing to stop in downtown Morgan City can make landing amongst the shrimp boats and other fishing vessels pulled up here under the sea wall. But this would not be a good place to leave your vessel for long, and
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121 Morgan City US Hwy 90 Bridge There are two US 90 bridges at Morgan City, each one carrying 2-lanes of traffic in opposite directions. The older bridge is a K-Truss Bridge, of which there six bridges in Louisiana. According to the Historic American Engineering Record the K-truss type of
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120.8 LBD Texaco Marine Service Dock
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102.8 LBD Tesro Petroleum Dock
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120.6 LBD Candy Fleet Dock
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120.1 RBD Garber Bro’s Dock
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119.7 LBD Bailey’s Basin Seafood Dock
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119.5 RBD Bayou Teche Water Trail Bayou Teche runs 135 miles from Port Barre to Berwick through St. Landry, St. Martin, Iberia and St. Mary parishes and is easily accessed from several state highways and Interstate 10. The trail has a total of 13 established access points which
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119.5 RBD Bayou Teche (Berwick) Lock & Dam At 119.5 a large bay opens up right bank descending opposite Drew’s Pass with giant lock gates at its end. The Berwick Lock and Dam which provides an entrance to the Bayou Teche Water Trail which could lead paddlers