Vicksburg to Baton Rouge

Mile 287.5 - LBD Greenwood Dune

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.

Mile 289.5 - 289.5 - 289 RBD Greenwood Bar

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

Mile 289.8 - LBD Polly Creek

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

Mile 291.8 - LBD Como Bayou

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

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Mile 291.9 - LBD Little Hollywood

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

Mile 293.0 - 293 - 291.5 LBD Tunica Hills (Mississippi Loess Bluffs #7)

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

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Mile 293.0 - LBD Tunica Bayou

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

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Mile 293.0 - Miles 293-290: RBD Tunica Bar Towhead

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

Mile 294.7 - LBD Sugar Lake Bayou

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,

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Mile 295.5 - RBD Leatherman Point

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

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Mile 297.0 - RBD Raccourci Runout/Monday Lake

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

Vicksburg to Baton Rouge

Mile 300.2 - 300.2 - 298 RBD Miles Bar Towhead

300.2 - 298 RBD Miles Bar Towhead Miles Bar and Hog Point belly up against each other side-by-side like Gemini the Twins (rising in the fall evening sky near Orion), and are separated only by the main channel of the big river. In general Hog Point Towhead will be