River Log section: Greenville to Vicksburg
Greenville to Vicksburg
Vicksburg Gage At this point in the Rivergator we’ll leave the Greenville gage and switch over to the Vicksburg Gage, which is about 40 miles downstream. We’ll denote the Vicksburg Gage as “VG.” For daily river levels and weekly forecasts, go to http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lmrfc/
Greenville to Vicksburg
LBD 437.7 Mouth of the Yazoo River For your final approach into Vicksburg stay with the flow left bank descending and look for the mouth of the Yazoo River. It opens up just before the first bank side industrial activity, rusted cranes, and old boats, scraps of steel and
Greenville to Vicksburg
RBD 438 King’s Point/Secret Entrance into Lake Centennia If the river is flowing bank full above 35 on the Vicksburg Gauge, you can cut through the woods here at a low place and gain access to the beautiful sparkling waters of Centennial Lake. Vicksburg paddlers sometimes use this
Greenville to Vicksburg
RBD 441-438.5 Delta Point Bar After paddling past the vast collection of grain elevators and connecting conveyor belts at Farmer’s Grain Terminal RBD 442.1 the canoeist or kayaker will see a three-mile long island, the last island above Vicksburg. This is the Delta Point Bar. You can
Greenville to Vicksburg
444 Brown’s Point Fault Line As you glide around Brown’s Point enjoying the lively currents pouring out of Paw Paw and Marshall Cut-Off and it seems like your final lap into Vicksburg is going to be an easy ride. Without warning and much to your dismay the strong
Greenville to Vicksburg
445-442 Brown’s Point The excitement is building as you round Brown’s Point. This is the last major bend of the river before you reach Vicksburg. You’ll soon be leaving the Delta. You’ll soon be seeing the bluffs. You’ll soon be quaffing beers and resupplying your
Greenville to Vicksburg
LBD 446.5 Paw Paw Chute Paw Paw Chute provides a spectacular tour of the primeval Delta bottomlands found just over the big trees lining the main channel of the river. It could also provide an alternate route for downstream paddlers headed to Vicksburg. Recommended water level for this: 20VG
Greenville to Vicksburg
RBD 449-445 Sparta Island As you slide into Marshall Cut-Off, and if the water is above 25 Vicksburg Gauge you can stay right bank and cut behind Sparta Island to re-enter the river three miles downstream near Brown’s Point. In 1999, I was leading a group of high school
Greenville to Vicksburg
449-445 Marshall Cut-Off Below Milliken Bend, the river flows through Marshal Cutoff (Sparta is on RBD). Marshall (and 15 other cutoffs) were authorized and constructed following the 1927 flood to speed flow and reduce flooding of the Mississippi River. Prior to this 1934 cutoff the river flowed east and then
Greenville to Vicksburg
RBD 457 Madison Parish Port and Public Boat Launch Primitive launch point. Carry your vessel to the water’s edge over mud, sand, gravel, rip-rap and whatever else you might encounter there. No concrete, no improvement. Rough parking on muddy gravel above rip-rap. Don’t leave your vehicle overnight and
Greenville to Vicksburg
LBD 458 Tara Landing Every year at the end of August thousands and sometimes tens of thousands of waders including anhingas, egrets, herons, roseate spoonbills, terns, killdeer, double breasted cormorants, sandhill cranes -- and many others -- roost in very particular and very remote wetlands along the Lower Mississippi River.
Greenville to Vicksburg
458-449 Milliken Bend Below Willow the mile-wide channel flows south past Chotard, Eagle Lake, Tara and then starts curving eastward into Milliken Bend. Tara Island is LBD 455 with possible low or medium water camping, but you might want to camp elsewhere. The noisy Madison Parish Port is right across