River Log section: St. Louis to Caruthersville
St. Louis to Caruthersville
90 RBD Seventy-Six Conservation Area and boat access The Mississippi River community of Seventy-Six was located on the present-site of the Seventy-Six Conservation Department. By the 1950s depopulation and flooding had reduced the community to a handful. Today, nothing remains of the former community. The area contains steep forested hills,
St. Louis to Caruthersville
93 - 88.5 LBD Wilkinson Island Middle Miss NWR The 2,532-acre Wilkinson Island Division is the largest and southernmost division of the Middle Miss National Wildlife Refuge. It is located 37 miles north of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in Jackson County, Illinois, and Perry County, Missouri (River Miles 88.
St. Louis to Caruthersville
94.3 RBD Red Rock Landing Conservation Area Red Rock Landing Conservation Area is on the Mississippi River in Perry County and consists of 554 acres and includes approximately one mile of Mississippi River frontage and one-half-mile of Cinque Hommes Creek frontage. The conservation area contains seven ponds, totally about
St. Louis to Caruthersville
94.5 RBD Cinque L’Homme Creek Below Cinque L’Homme Creek the river makes one of my favorite runs down the dancing ridge line of the Missouri Ozarks on the right, and flood plain on the left, running eastward toward Fountain Bluff. The right bank bluffs are a roller
St. Louis to Caruthersville
96 RBD Roman Landing Roman Bar is an all-weather campsite of note, a tall bluff of sand thrown into the woods, with protected camping up to high water 26ChG.
St. Louis to Caruthersville
97 - 95 LBD Jones Towhead Braxton Barden and Mark River camped on Jones Towhead in low water, Nov 2014, and made this report: Following the Liberty Bar archipelago is Jones Towhead. The tip of the towhead is separated from the main island even during low water conditions. This isolated
St. Louis to Caruthersville
98 - 87 LBD Liberty Bar Liberty Bar back channel opens up around 12SLG with good flow by 18SLG. No open sandbar camping (except in extreme low water), but good winter storm protection. The back channel creates a turbulent eddy at the bottom of the island where the next back
St. Louis to Caruthersville
100 - 98 RBD Jones Point Islands Long series of islands caught behind dikes right bank descending, one bar for each dike. Excellent low water camping, becoming bank bars in medium water, gone in high water.
St. Louis to Caruthersville
101 - 100 LBD Liberty Island Liberty Island is a secondary island to Rockwood, the two become connected in extreme low water (with a beautiful inlet in between). If Rockwood is not available, or you find others camping/picnicking on Rockwood and you seek more privacy, continue downstream to Liberty.
St. Louis to Caruthersville
102.5 - 101 LBD Rockwood Island Most beautiful campsite and picnic grounds in the area, full of families of bald eagles, coyotes, beavers, and a Noah’s Ark of creatures common to the Middle Mississippi. A separate and shallow sandbar island forms below 28 SLG with shallow inlet choked
St. Louis to Caruthersville
105.5 - 103.8 RBD Crain’s Island Archipelago of four or more islands (depending on river level) open for exploration around 12ChG but slow moving water, good full flow around 20ChG, and most islands completely covered in water at flood stage 27ChG.
St. Louis to Caruthersville
106.5 - 104 LBD Turkey Bluffs State Fish and Wildlife Area Rounded dolomite bluffs and luxuriant forests border the Mississippi for several miles below Marys River, although you have to get behind Knight Hawk Coal Co. Dock to reach it, and cross a busy railroad line and Highway 1.