River Log section: Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
287.5 - 284 LBD Little Island Little Island is found left bank descending so close along the riverbank that it is hard to tell the difference between it and the shore. If it is that time of day and you are ready to rest your paddle-weary arms, slide over
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
287.5 LBD Greenwood Dune Greenwood Dune is another small dune of a sandbar, located a mile below the Greenwood Light. Hunting Camp behind, wear orange in season, and avoid woods.
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
289.5 - 289 RBD Greenwood Bar Greenwood Bar is a small sliver of a sandbar with possible campsites up to 35NG.
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
289.8 LBD Polly Creek Another Tunica Hills drainage, Polly Creek enters the mother Mississippi through a wide mouth with small bluffs of sand on its south shore and a sprawling hunting camp on its north.
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
291.8 LBD Como Bayou Como bayou is an intriguing small bayou entering the river left bank descending just below Little Hollywood. Como Bayou runs out of the Tunica Hills through a channel choked with cypress and leaning hardwoods. The collapsing banks creates canyons of trees in places and tunnels
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
291.9 LBD Little Hollywood Leaving the Tunica Hills paddlers will pass a serene plantation set on a grassy flats below the last bluff, a classic gothic mansion, white of course, and several out buildings including a church, a barn, and an octagonal pavilion closer to the water’s edge.
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
293 - 291.5 LBD Tunica Hills (Mississippi Loess Bluffs #7) The Mighty Mississippi rubs its big bubbly belly here for almost two miles down the most visible and accessible of all of the Mississippi Loess Bluffs. Paddlers can enjoy the big beautiful Tunica Hills as a backdrop to their
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
293 LBD Tunica Bayou Tunica Bayou separates the Tunica Hills from the Angola floodplain north for several miles, and then meanders east directly into the hills for thirty more, branching out along the way as all tributaries do, and forming an intricate branching of seeps, springs, swamps, and other forms
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
293 - 290 RBD Tunica Bar Towhead Three mile long Tunica Bar Towhead is the best camping in the vicinity of the Tunica Hills. If you want to enjoy the full experience of the dance of light along the convoluted shapes and fantastic colors of the Tunica Hills, camp here
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
294.7 LBD Sugar Lake Bayou Sugar Lake Bayou drains a large lake by the same name, and enters the river left bank descending at a severe angle. At higher water levels (above 30NG) you can paddle up this short bayou for a quick exit from Northerly winds or storms,
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
295.5 RBD Leatherman Point A big beautiful protected sand bar is found 1/2 mile above the Leatherman Point light 295.0 RBD which features a large semi-circular bluff of sand with a flat high point in its nucleus, and tall trees behind. The trees are rooted in sand
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
297 RBD Raccourci Runout/Monday Lake If you enter the wild 5 mile journey through the bottomland hardwood forest to reach Monday Lake at Raccourci you will be well rewarded with deer, turtles, beaver, fish, birds and many other creatures. But you might have a lot of trouble getting back