River Log section: Caruthersville to Memphis
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
Caruthersville to Memphis
839 Caruthersville Bridge The Caruthersville Bridge is the first span found on the Lower Mississippi downstream of the mouth of the Ohio at Cairo, Illinois. Completed in December of 1976 it is purported to be the longest river span at 7,089 feet, although from the distance its clunky lopsided
Caruthersville to Memphis
lbd 840 Linwood Bend Boat Ramp Simple rough ramp laid over the revetment. Good up to flood stage, Bottoms out around 5 CuG but paddlers can always lift their canoe or kayak over the sand/mud bar deposited at bottom in low water. If you need to make landing at
Caruthersville to Memphis
lbd 845-840 Caruthersville-Linwood Bend 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
Caruthersville to Memphis
RBD 846 Isle of Capri Lady Luck Casino and Casino Inn & Suites The adventurer in need of hotel room and a hot shower can find easy access to the Casino Inn & Suites which is located inland of the Isle of Capri/Lady Luck, and maybe two or three
Caruthersville to Memphis
846.5 Caruthersville Originally settled in 1794 as the town of La Petite Prairie by Fench fur trapper Joseph Le Sieur, Caruthersville survived the 1811/12 New Madrid Earthquake, the floods of 1927 and 1937, the depression, and the Civil Rights era. Even though it was threatened by its highest