River Log section: Caruthersville to Memphis
Caruthersville to Memphis
rbd 805-801 Island 25 Island 25 has been absorbed into the mainland around Tomato Arkansas. Low water camping only on shifting sandbars that accumulate around the Is 25 Dikes. Once you come around the Bend of Island 25 the downstream paddler is confronted with a numbing sixteen-mile long straight shot
Caruthersville to Memphis
rbd 806 Tomato Arkansas Flood Prone landscape, as evidenced by several giant blue holes vestiges of the 1937 flood, all three right bank descending, one near 808 (35.860638,-89.772718), one near the light at 807.7 (35.854587,-89.760039), and the last a mile further near 807
Caruthersville to Memphis
rbd 809.3 Barfield Boat Ramp Rough ramp pocked by holes and cracks and placed on the riverbank in a high industry traffic location amidst the docks and cranes of Nucor Yamamato. Concrete disappears into muddy/sandy eddy bar at low water. No nearby services of any sort. Our recommendation:
Caruthersville to Memphis
815-805 Barfield Bend You might spend several hours completely circumnavigating Barfield Bend during low water. The main channel here measures ten miles long and wraps completely around Nebraska Point. If you are struggling through a head wind, don’t worry too much, it will soon become a tail wind! After
Caruthersville to Memphis
LBD 814 Nebraska Landing During the 2011 flood the waters surging around Wrights Point tried to bust a new channel open for the Mississippi River behind the club-shaped Nebraska Point which would have turned this area into a large island. Fortunately for the small community and country church at Nebraska
Caruthersville to Memphis
LBD 817.7-801.8 Chickasaw National Wildlife Refuge 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
Caruthersville to Memphis
LBD 817.7 Tamm’s Landing and Ed Jones Boat Ramp The Ed Jones is an excellent ramp built at downstream angle over rip-rap. Best access to this remote stretch of river. Good at all water levels up to flood stage. Parking lot at top of ramp, but don’t
Caruthersville to Memphis
LBD 819.3 Mouth of the Obion River The Obion is the biggest Mississippi River tributary in Northwestern Tennessee, but unfortunately its entrance into the big river is diminished by the unsightly placement of a small industrial docking in the form of a gravel operations. Gravel is dredged from the
Caruthersville to Memphis
rbd 820-815 Wright’s Point - Tamm Bend 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
Caruthersville to Memphis
LBD 823-829 Island 21 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
Caruthersville to Memphis
rbd 829-832 Island 20 Dikes & Towhead 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
Caruthersville to Memphis
lbd 838-835 Island 18 Towhead 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