River Log section: St. Louis to Caruthersville
St. Louis to Caruthersville
899.1 LBD Slough Neck Landing Boat Ramp The boat ramp at Slough Neck Landing is a rough gravel affair falling over the rip rap riverbank. Easiest to use in high water, this ramp bottoms out in mud in low water. There is no apparent upkeep here. But even though
St. Louis to Caruthersville
902.5 - 897 RBD Winchester Chute Winchester Chute, an old channel of the river, winds a serpentine course around the very end of Donaldson Point, which you can see quite clearly on Google earth. Winchester Chute could be accessed during flood stage when the water is flowing into the
St. Louis to Caruthersville
902-898 RBD Winchester Towhead/Island No. 10 Good north wind protection: there are several miles of steep narrow sandbars thrown up against the interior bank RBD from 902 downstream, the best found around 901 RBD. These would make for tight quarters, but would also be excellent protection for a cold
St. Louis to Caruthersville
902 - 899 LBD Below Island No 9 Dikes Some serious rock work has been done over the years around the outside of Slough Bend where the river makes its southernmost run around Donaldson Point before rolling ten miles north up to New Madrid. At low and medium water levels
St. Louis to Caruthersville
RBD 908 - 905 Donaldson Point Conservation Area (and also RBD 896-893) Donaldson Point Conservation Area occupies 5,785 acres on a unique point of land facing southwards between Island No 9, No 10, and Slough Neck (Bessie’s Bend). The Mississippi River forms part of the east and west
St. Louis to Caruthersville
905 - 887 Welcome to Tennessee? Like the popular dancer at a ball, the Mississippi sashays into Tennessee for 8 miles around Donaldson Point, and then recrosses the dance floor to share one last dance with Kentucky, throwing Tennessee to the side momentarily. There are 175 miles of Mississippi River
St. Louis to Caruthersville
907 - 900 RBD Donaldson Point Dikes A seven mile series of sandbars and willow clump forest islands has grown up along the Donaldson Point Dikes, RBD along Donaldson Point. From mile 907 all the way down to mile 900 there are 11 dikes in all and almost each one
St. Louis to Caruthersville
910 - 907 LBD Milton Bell Bar The Madrid Bar stretches out almost three miles along the Kentucky shore left bank descending below the Chute of Island No. 8 with the best landings for picnics and campsites around mile LBD 910. The Madrid Bar is layered sand and gravel at
St. Louis to Caruthersville
911.5 LBD Island No 8 Chute Boat Ramp Island No 8 Chute Boat Ramp is a well designed and constructed concrete boat ramp laid out over the rip rap in a remote stretch of the river in the Chute of Island No. 8. French Point Gravel Bar is just
St. Louis to Caruthersville
914 - 913 LBD French Point Gravel Bar The best and most extensive gravel bar is found below French Point when the water falls below 20CG, and even better below 10CG. The river washes rocks, fossils and other hard objects like glass shards and brick and lumps of coal, from
St. Louis to Caruthersville
915 RBD (Back Channel) Bend of Island No. 8 Boat Ramp Bend of Island No. 8 Boat Ramp is a good quality concrete ramp built over the rip rap on the backside of Island No. 8 about two-thirds of the way up the back channel with access via the levee.
St. Louis to Caruthersville
916 - 911 RBD Island No 8 Everything about Island No 8 arouses wonder and appreciation. It is the biggest, wildest, and most inspiring island in this stretch of the Lower Mississippi, habitat to big herds of deer, and thriving with wildlife of every sort. It is important habitat for