River Log section: St. Louis to Caruthersville
St. Louis to Caruthersville
RBD 80 Tower Rock As you come around Fountain Bluff, and then past Wittenburg, a hulking fang of Tower Rocks juts out of the right hand side of the channel big and dark and brooding, not far off the right bank, rising alarmingly like the biggest snag you have ever
St. Louis to Caruthersville
80.5 LBD Devil's Backbone Park & Campground One of the most beautiful parks on the Middle Mississippi straddles the Devil’s Backbone, a ridge of limestone leftover from the glacial days when torrents of water 20-30 times the Mississippi is today scoured everything movable out of the
St. Louis to Caruthersville
80.8 LBD Grand Tower - Devil’s Bake Oven (Rock Cliff) After bouncing off Fountain Bluff the channel goes river center and paddlers looking downstream will become aware of an unusual feature seen left bank, a chunky shape rising right out of the water. At first it appears to
St. Louis to Caruthersville
81.3 RBD Wittenburg Boat Ramp Private boat ramp, no services. Picnic pavilion and small parking lot. Long walk to the nearest stores (5 miles -- Altenburg) but well worth the hike if you want to see the very unique Lutheran Church and Museum. Picture-perfect small farms of all shapes
St. Louis to Caruthersville
82.8 LBD Fountain Bluff You can locates some interesting sandy shelves in low and medium water levels here, that could make isolated 1 or 2-person camps, amongst some huge smooth boulders laying in various angles along river’s edge.
St. Louis to Caruthersville
84 - 83 LBD Fountain Bluff Fountain Bluff is a remarkable bluff, a jumble of jagged boulders tumbling down the steep angle plateau into the river. This free-standing plateau is a leftover from glacier meltdown, the river used to plow over the land behind and to the east of Fountain
St. Louis to Caruthersville
85 - 83 RBD Gill’s Point Bar An open sandbar emerges downstream of Gill’s Point in low and medium waters, good for picnicking, wading, swimming, but no protection, no firewood. Not recommending for camping, especially in threat of wind, storms or rising river.
St. Louis to Caruthersville
87.2 RBD Cumberland Rock At Cumberland Rock you will find a pile of angular grey boulders fallen over the riverbank. Great place to stop, stretch your legs, picnic and go exploring.
St. Louis to Caruthersville
88.3 RBD Star Landing Primitive remote access over railroad tracks. Popular fishing spot.
St. Louis to Caruthersville
88.4 LBD LaCour’s Island LaCour’s Island is a nice small bar, but backed by hunting camps and full of 4-wheel drive tracks.
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.