River Log section: Baton Rouge to Venice
Baton Rouge to Venice
156 RBD - 152 LBD Belmont Crossing The Mississippi River makes a distinct 135-degree bend around College Point in Rich Bend in a typical blind corner. From space the shape seems to be a giant checkmark, maybe a metaphor for another checkmark in your epic adventure down the Mississippi! Monitor
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157.7 South Louisiana Sugars Cooperative Dock 156 LBD College Point Beach & Greenspace 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
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158.4 Equilon Pipeline, St. James Sugarland Terminal Dock No. 1 and No. 2
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159.5 RBD Capline Terminal Dock No’s 1, 2, 3, and 4
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160.7 RBD thru 158 RBD St James Petroleum Terminals It’s difficult to see it from a canoe or kayak but for almost 3 miles along the West Bank (RBD) are a continuous series of petroleum terminals making up one of the nations most important crude oil hubs. If
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160.9 LBD SunCoke Energy Convent Marine Terminal SunCoke Energy just bought this coal export terminal from Raven Energy. The terminal has a unique oval shaped rail spur that surrounds the facility allowing coal trains to simply pull through to unload and end up going out back the way they
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161 LBD - 158 RBD Rich Bend Crossing This south-running stretch of river between Convent and St. James does not offer any easy lines of navigation for the downstream paddler. Canoes, kayaks and paddleboards will have to decide between staying exposed to fast-moving freighters mid-channel or very active docking and
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162 LBD Romeville Dune Romeville Dune is a small shelf of sand rising at a shallow incline, and offering dry location with limited space for picnicking and camping up to 25 BR. A thicket of willows grows above the dune, with a mature bottomland hardwood forest behind, creating a thin
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164.5 LBD Zen-Noh Point Named by paddlers for the small landing and shelf of safe sand that can be found here at low water in between the long lines of barges. You can’t count on this place for a landing because it is sometimes open, and then sometimes
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165 LBD Shell Beach A high bank of rangia shells rises above the river here affording a good landing that you know won’t squash under your foothold like so many muddy landings do along this stretch of river. Dry up to flood stage 35 BR. There is vehicle access
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165.6 LBD Bisso Towboat Co., Burnside Mooring.
Baton Rouge to Venice
166.7 RBD Chevron Phillips Chemical Co., St. James Plant Wharf.