St. Louis to Caruthersville

Mile 127.0 - RBD Tower Rock Stone Company Quarry

127 RBD Tower Rock Stone Company Quarry

Mile 128.7 - RBD Lawrence Hollow/Magnolia Hollow Conservation Area

128.7 RBD Lawrence Hollow/Magnolia Hollow Conservation Area This rugged 1,740-acre area is bordered by Establishment Creek and Schmidt's Island, along-side the Mississippi River. The area features steep bluffs and scenic river views. Eagles are commonly sighted along the river. The forest at Magnolia Hollow Conservation

St. Louis to Caruthersville

Mile 132.5 - 132.5 - 129.6 RBD Establishment Chute/Schmidt’s Island

132.5 - 129.6 RBD Establishment Chute/Schmidt’s Island Adventurous paddlers could stay right bank descending and enter Establishment Creek at 129.6RBD for some superlative exploration of the steep forested Mississippi River Hills. Establishment Creek divides the floodplain from the Hills. Trees and undergrowth that grow on

St. Louis to Caruthersville

Mile 133.7 - RBD Top End of Establishment Island

133.7 RBD Top End of Establishment Island After 50 miles of paddling below the Great Arch you can finally stretch out a little and enjoy the spiritual quietude emanating from the natural landscape of the Middle Mississippi, here stretching out below you in undulating alternating waves of Limestone Bluffs

St. Louis to Caruthersville

Mile 132.2 - LBD Fort de Chartres

132.2 LBD Fort de Chartres For almost a century, beginning in 1673 when Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette explored the Mississippi River, France claimed the Illinois Country. In 1718 the French reorganized the administration of their American possessions and removed the Illinois Country from Canadian jurisdiction and made it

St. Louis to Caruthersville

Mile 132.2 - LBD Fort Chartres Landing

132.2 LBD Fort Chartres Landing Primitive landing up muddy bank with access to historic Fort de Chartres. Make your landing and pull vessel out of water. Should be safe to leave for a walk up the levee to the Fort and nearby State Park, but if you plan on

St. Louis to Caruthersville

Mile 134.3 - 134.3 - 132.3 LBD Fort Chartres Island

134.3 - 132.3 LBD Fort Chartres Island A narrow wildlife-packed chute wanders behind Fort Chartres Island, leaving the river at a perpendicular to the north-northeast, and curving around a small island to make a one and half mile run southeasterly, parallel to the main channel. Full of eagles,

St. Louis to Caruthersville

Mile 139.5 - 139.5 - 136.5 LBD Salt Lake Island

139.5 - 136.5 LBD Salt Lake Island Salt Lake Island is a beautiful two-mile long island that hugs the left bank descending in a beautiful wall of bluffs. Salt Lake Island Chute is a wide back channel that opens to easy passage in low water 8-10SLG. A smaller

St. Louis to Caruthersville

Mile 140.5 - RBD Truman Access Boat Ramp

140.5 RBD Truman Access Boat Ramp Good at medium and low water levels, but goes underwater at flood stage, and when the river drops becomes a muddy mess. The Truman Access Boat Ramp provides boat and fishing access to the Mississippi River and walk-in access to the adjoining Harlow

St. Louis to Caruthersville

Mile 140.5 - RBD Saline Creek

140.5 RBD Saline Creek Paddlers can paddle almost a mile up Saline Creek in medium to high water levels before it branches off into Muddy Creek for spectacular wildlife and vegetation typical to a bottomlands hardwood forest. Some of the noteworthy bluff flora includes lamb’s quarter, wild mustard,

St. Louis to Caruthersville

Mile 144.0 - 144 - 140.5 RBD Harlow Island Division Middle Miss NWR

144 - 140.5 RBD Harlow Island Division Middle Miss NWR In high water paddlers could dive into the woods at the top end of Harlow Island and bushwhack their way through to the bottom, where it re-enters the Mississippi just above the Truman Access Boat Ramp. Nearly 800 acres

St. Louis to Caruthersville

Mile 146.2 - 146.2 - 144.5 LBD Osborne Island

146.2 - 144.5 LBD Osborne Island Extensive sandbars at low water surround Osborne Island, but no protection, and it will be a noisy camp due to all of the industry of Buzzi Unicem, a giant cement manufacturing operation downstream on the main channel. Both sides of the main