River Log section: Greenville to Vicksburg
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
Greenville to Vicksburg
LBD 458.8 Eagle Lake Pass At the South end of the tornado cut and several miles downstream of Chotard/Terrapin Cut-Off is the mouth of the Eagle Lake Pass, left bank descending 458.8. At low water this is nothing more than a ditch through the scraggly tornado ravaged
Greenville to Vicksburg
LBD 459 2010 F-4 Tallulah - Yazoo Tornado As you paddle along past the bottom of Willow Island you will notice a large swath of forest on the Mississippi shore left bank descending that has been subjected to the worst haircut you have ever seen. It might at first appear
Greenville to Vicksburg
461 LBD Chotard Lake Terrapin Neck Cutoff For a spectacular glimpse into the hidden jungle you’ve been paddling through (but can’t see from the main channel) duck into the narrow opening left bank descending near mile 461. This is the entrance to Chotard Lake. You are in for
Greenville to Vicksburg
RBD 462-459 Willow Island The Main channel runs southeasterly from Cottonwood Bar into Willow Cutoff (1934), and continues south around Willow Island, and then slides southeasterly past the Madison Parish Port at Milliken Bend towards Paw-Paw. The five mile channel between Cottonwood and Willow almost a mile wide and nearly