River Log section: Caruthersville to Memphis
Caruthersville to Memphis
Exit Behind Dean Island RBD 761.5 https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=217859314001592865582.0004e43a6af952f1925d3&msa=0&ll=35.52105,-89.955711&spn=0.086065,0.180931 http://goo.gl/maps/53RC8 An unusually long back channel can be accessed here for the adventuresome canoeist or
Caruthersville to Memphis
RBD 761.5-757 Back Channel of Dean Island https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=217859314001592865582.0004e4168e0d4ef2771bf&msa=0&ll= 35.44382,-90.018024&spn=0.086427,0.09141 http://goo.gl/maps/mnfqr Note: If you intend on camping on Dean Island, stay Main Channel where
Caruthersville to Memphis
RBD 761.5-757 Dean Island Visit Google Maps while reading about Dean Island: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=217859314001592865582.0004e4168e0d4ef2771bf&msa=0&ll= 35.44382,-90.018024&spn=0.086427,0.09141 http://goo.gl/maps/mnfqr Note: This google map depicts Dean Island during
Caruthersville to Memphis
RBD 767 Island 35 Boat Ramp Abandoned ramp. No access. Island has been privatized by landowners in an exclusive hunting club. On river’s edge you might notice an off-white ramshackle dwelling whose porch is collapsing over the rip-rap just upstream of landing. This is the site of a legendary
Caruthersville to Memphis
RBD 767.6-761.5 Island 35 https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=217859314001592865582.0004e43a6af952f1925d3&msa=0&ll=35.52105,-89.955711&spn=0.086065,0.180931 http://goo.gl/maps/53RC8 From the main channel of the river 6,000 acre Island 35 seems rather a
Caruthersville to Memphis
LBD 766-763 Below Richardson Landing Dikes & Bar Huge sandbar at low water, small at medium, completely disappears in high water. Best picnicking top end. Not recommended for camping unless darkness is settling on you and you have no other option. Exposed location, difficult access to the shelter of trees
Caruthersville to Memphis
LBD 768 Randolph’s Landing/Duvall’s Boat Ramp Wide concrete ramp with huge parking lot, set perpendicular to river over the rip-rap. Parking lot notorious hell-raising party place amongst locals. Do not leave your vehicle overnight. Safeguard all valuables out of sight even if just for a day trip.
Caruthersville to Memphis
LBD 768.9 Richardon’s Landing All that remains of Richardon’s Landing is a deep inlet full of powerful boils and eddies and the ragged edge of asphalt that was once Tennessee Highway 59, which was ripped from its final hundred feet by the insatiable appetite of the main
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LBD 771-769 The Second Chickasaw Bluff (Richardson Bluff) As you paddle along the Hatchie Bar and then past the mouth of the Hatchie River you will be afforded your first vista of the second natural wonder along this section of river, the 2nd Chickasaw Bluff, sometimes known as Richardson Bluff.
Caruthersville to Memphis
LBD 771-772 Angelo Towhead Surrounded by the Randolph Bluffs on one side and the Mississippi River on the other, Angelo Towhead is a low-slung heap of sand and gravel that changes with every high water, sometimes there are giant piles of sand on one side of the dikes, sometimes there
Caruthersville to Memphis
LBD 771 Randolph Landing Directly behind Angelo Towhead is the tiny bluff town of Randolph, which features a bar, a church, and several houses. Poor Randolph, at one time it was the favored location for the major port and city of the area, later superseded by its lowly neighbor to
Caruthersville to Memphis
LBD 773.5 Mouth of the Hatchie River The Hatchie River is the biggest volume river of all West Tennessee tributaries, partly due to the fact that it alone was never dredged, straightened, or otherwise channelized. The Wolf, The Loosahatchie, the Obion, and the Forked Deer - all are suffering