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As you paddle into Avondale Bend the busy industrial Kenner reach fades away and some quietness returns along with long lines of trees on both sides of the river, giving the illusion of paddling through a wild wooded place. We call this the “river illusion.” The “river illusion” is found
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Best access to the City of Kenner via batture around Boardwalk. Possible picnicking/camping up to 10NO. The best safe place to make a landing and access the City of Kenner is in the wide batture flats surrounding the river boardwalk which extends over the levee from downtown on the
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Good low/med water picnicking/camping up to 12NO with good protection from S wind and W wind or storms. An unusual collection of sand dunes and one lengthy sandbar can be found at low and medium waters around the outside edge of Twenty-Six Mile Point from a low bar
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Possible low water picnicking/camping, but better location across river at Dufresne. The three-mile bend of the river around Good Hope, Hahnville, 26-Six Mile Point, and Dufresne offers a moment of breathing room from the bankside chaos at Norco/Hahnville. The industry falls back, and the lines of big trees
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This is your last safe haven before the very busy gauntlet of petrochem giants found downstream for the next 3 miles. Stay on land at this location if conditions are bad, such as oncoming storms, high winds, or nightfall. This ragged ramp is the only paved public boat ramp within
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Great picnicking and sight-seeing at south end (access from boat ramp). Visitor’s Center. Possible camping, but must gain USACE permission first. Bonnet Carre Spillway makes a great rest stop and site visit at an important point of interest for paddlers (Visitor’s Center atop Spillway Gates on South side)
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Beautiful low/med water camping, with storm protection from all directions, but goes under around 12NO. Newly Discovered Island! Perfect for paddlers seeking refuge, but very mosquito prone in its season, and only good in low and medium water levels. Completely underwater around 12NO. Bonnet Carre Island is the very
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Good low/med water picnic or camp place, highest sandbar might be dry up to 17NO. The cut-out bank at Marquez creates some powerful eddies that sometimes reach into the main channel and can force you into oncoming freighters or cause you to get spun around, depending which side of
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Paddler’s Paradise: great all weather, all season, all water level picnicking or camping, but contact Poche Family first about camping. Long distance paddlers have a big surprise waiting for them at Poche Park. Poche Park is an unusual sandbar piled high along the East Bank (left bank descending) just
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Beautiful low water sandbar perched in quiet bend of the river. Picnicking or camping would only be possible in low water levels, below 20BR. There is a wonderful calm from the hub-bub of industry as the river rolls through Rich Bend around College Point. If it is that magical time
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Highest sandbar in area, dry up to flood stage 35 BR, but popular fishing and party spot. oint Houmas has the highest sandbars (good to flood stage 35 BR) and the best predictable camping within this stretch (until Poche Park in Paulina) but is also vehicle accessible and a known
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Possible all-weather, all-water camping at point, up to 30BR, but beware nearby dirt removal operation. Quieter low water sandbar at lower end. Bringier Point allows the river to make a tight bend to the north a couple of miles past the town of Donaldsonville. Although not as tight as Smoke