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Bounded by the Mississippi on one side and the Tennessee Loess Bluffs on the other, Chickasaw National Wildlife Refuge encompasses the single largest block of bottomland hardwood forest in Tennessee at 25,006 acres. Chickasaw NWR and adjacent lands are known to be important wintering and stop-over areas for a
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The main channel of the Mississippi makes a classic 180 degree bend around Wright’s Point. In your canoe or kayak, you might not appreciate the shape of the channel. But on your map or from the air you will see two distinctively shaped bends called Tamm and further downstream
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During low water you will make a five-mile semi circle to get around the sprawling sandbars of Island 21, and you will want to be alert around the industrious hubbub surrounding Nucor Arkansas Steel & Power Plant found RBD near 824 where coal and iron ore barges dock and smaller
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Archipelago of Islands accumulating along the dikes of Island 20. Canoeists and kayakers in higher water levels can stay RBD below Cottonwood Point (RBD 832.5) and float behind a series of three prominent clumpy islands which have grown up along the wing dams of island 20 and go completely
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After sliding under the bridge and past the Boothspoint Bunge Grain elevator continue on downstream westward and the southwestward around Island 18 where possible sandy high water campsites (up to 30 CuG) are found a high hump mid-channel near 836, at higher water levels keep going for higher sites. At
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Linwood Bend is named for the Linwood steamboat that sank in 1847 near the lower end of present day Blaker Towwhead. There is no evidence of its existence. You could say the Lower Miss is a 1,000 mile long graveyard of steamboats. Some wrecks have formed islands, some immediately
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Caruthersville Area River Routes Caruthersville is located midway down a series of tight looping river bends followed by long straightways with islands that offer a plentitude of paddling routes, including a number of day trip options above and below the city. It is the ideal launch site for for canoeists,