River Log section: St. Louis to Caruthersville
St. Louis to Caruthersville
RBD 917 - 916 Big Oak Tree State Park While not easily accessible by foot from the river, paddlers should be aware of this natural wonder that lies just over the levee, with state and national trees such as the pumpkin ash, rusty blackhaw, eastern cottonwood, slippery elm, shumard oak,
St. Louis to Caruthersville
917 - 916 RBD Island No 7 Heading downstream out of Hickman the paddler rounds Dorena Towhead and is presented with a forest lined channel bank left and punctuated by a series of islands bank right. These are an archipelago of islands that have accumulated along the Island No. 7
St. Louis to Caruthersville
918-915 RBD Seven Island Conservation Area The state of Missouri has protected 1375 acres of bottomland hardwood forest, old back channels and swamps in the Seven Island Conservation Area, with 3.5 miles of along the big river. In addition to providing important habitat for waterfowl during periods of high
St. Louis to Caruthersville
922 - 921 RBD Dorena Towhead The Dorena Towhead rises out of the river bank right in a long shelf of sand at low and medium water levels, with generous but narrow sandbars along the forests in high water, all the way to bankfull and even a few slivers of
St. Louis to Caruthersville
921.5 LBD 4th Kentucky Bluff: Hickman, Kentucky Hickman, Kentucky sits on top of the 4th Kentucky Bluff, which is the last of the Kentucky Bluffs. Goodbye hills; hullo delta! Hickman the last of any evidence that paddlers will see of high ground for another 140 miles downstream. The next
St. Louis to Caruthersville
921.5 LBD Hickman Harbor Hickman upsets the wild miles paddlers experience below Wolf Island, but only for a minute. All industry is all contained within the harbor, mostly in wharfing and docking facilities, including a grain elevator located just below the harbor mouth. The US Coast Guard has a
St. Louis to Caruthersville
922.6 RBD Dorena - Hickman Ferry Landing One of the last ferry operations on the Lower Mississippi River operates between Dorena, Missouri, and Hickman, Kentucky. Paddlers be watchful of the small tow + barge outfit as it makes its transit back and forth across the channel. The Hickman Harbor is
St. Louis to Caruthersville
924 RBD Dorena Crevasse The word "crevasse" comes from an Old French word, "crevace," which meant a crevice, fissure, or crack. From the French settlers on the lower reaches of the Mississippi, American planters learned to apply the word to a breach in the levee system.
St. Louis to Caruthersville
924.6 RBD Dorena Boat Ramp Dorena Boat Ramp is an excellent all-season concrete boat ramp descending over revetment into deep water outside of Beckwith Bend opposite Beckwith Bar. If you are putting in or taking out at Dorena be ready for fast water conditions which are concentrated here on
St. Louis to Caruthersville
926 - 924 LBD Beckwith Bend Bar Great campsites can be found all around Beckwith Bend Bar at all water levels up to bank full 35 CG, but the only protection is found in a small piece of woods isolated on a hump of sand at top end, near LBD
St. Louis to Caruthersville
926.6 LBD Samuel Light Sand Dune A broad sandy bluff wth god protection from SE storms or winds grows below the Samuel Light. This sand dune is dry in all water levels.
St. Louis to Caruthersville
930 - 928 LBD Williams Landing Bar Low water bar emerges only in lowest of water levels. Two blue holes formed in 2011 flood, one in armpit of river near LBD 930, and one behind Samuel’s Landing at LBD 928. The high bank forest is a jungle of berries,