River Log section: Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
261.8 John James Audubon (New Roads) Bridge The beautiful fixed-span John James Audubon Bridge was completed and put into service in 2011, displacing the old St. Francisville Ferry. It is popularly known as the New Roads Bridge, and was the newest bridge on the Middle/Lower Mississippi River until
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
263 - 261 LBD Sandy Dunes Dugan Landing There are a few sandy dunes in the vicinity of the bridge, the best being Dugan Landing. You could pull of here for a picnic, or to take a break, but camping would be awful due to the fact that the Big
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
263 RBD Big Cajun Power Plant I and II Big Cajun II is a coal-fired operation, and is noted by the three smoke stacks you have been seeing since St. Maurice Island. Big Cajun I is a natural gas plant that you don’t see over the riverbank because it’
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
264.7 LBD Small Bayou The mouth of a small bayou is found a couple hundred yards below the St. Fancisville Boat Launch that would make a good picnic spot, but not recommended for camping.
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
264.8 LBD St. Francisville Boat Ramp Located a little over a mile from the Ferry Landing is a narrow ramp with weird angles at the top that make it anxiety inducing to negotiate with a trailer. It also requires a long drive down a poorly maintained gravel road along
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
265.5 LBD St Francisville Mat Casting Field Operated by the Army Corps of Engineers, the St Francisville Mat Casting Field is a 210 acre field in which the concrete squares that make up the “articulated mattresses” used to stabilize the river’s banks are cast and stockpiled. The concrete
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
265.5 LBD Army Corps Work Ramp Shown on the USACE 2007 maps as a public landing, but it is not open for use and it is not a good ramp either, being all gravel and limited by water level for ease of use.
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
266 LBD Old St. Francisville Ferry Landing A ferry here was first commissioned by an act of the Legislature in 1830, and for a long time was the only ferry service between Plaquemine, LA, and Hickman, KY. The ferry only recently ended its long service shuttling vehicle across the river
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
266.2 LBD Bayou Sara Bayou Sara enters the Mississippi just above the old ferry boat landing, surrounded by low/med water sandbars that climb in elevation as you proceed up the bayou and eventually rise to become tall steep muddy banks typical to the Lower Miss and its tributaries.
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
268.5 - 268 RBD Graveyard Landing There are two landings located about a half mile apart from each other on either side of the Graveyard Light (RBD 268.5). The first is an open grassy area with trees scattered throughout, and is an asphalt landing. The second is a
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
270 LBD Double Silo Hunting Club “Cajun Condo” Known by the tow pilots as “Cajun Condo,” these twin grain silos silo have been rebuilt from the inside as a fancy dormitory, and are in fact a high end hunting club. You probably won’t want to camp here, especially during
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
272.4 LBD Hardwick’s Ditch/Access to the Co-Champion Cypress Tree Paddlers have a unique opportunity to walk up to one of the largest and oldest trees in the south, the co-champion bald cypress of North America. If the river is high you can paddle all the way, but