Mile 120.8 - RBD Old Luling Ferry Ramp (Defunct)

John Ruskey

20 Apr 2026 � 1 min read

120.8 RBD Old Luling Ferry Ramp (Defunct)

Paddlers can locate primitive access to the town of Luling via old Ferry Landing. A small beach forms at low water levels, within a cut in an otherwise rip-rap landing. If you hit it at the right water level, you can paddle into a small protected cove for a landing safe from waves. This landing goes under at flood stage, but you can paddle to the levee anyway. This is an inhabited location (trailers) and rough place. Do not leave your vessel or gear unattended. If this place looks too weird or difficult, continue downstream around fleeted barges another couple hundred yards to second possible choice for landing, which is just over the levee from Sugarhouse Road in Luling. Just over the levee is downtown Luling for resupply at Triangle Grocery, and some choices for food including Country Corner, Mocha Latte Coffee & Care and Jazz Cafe.

Luling/Destrehan/St. Rose/Ama Industrial Reach

The zealous claws of Chemical Corridor close again around the Mississippi River below the Luling Bridge with Wall Street superstars ADM, Monsanto, and International Matex. ARTCO is a transportation subsidiary of ADM. Paddlers, you will be hemmed in by non-stop fleeting as you pass by Ama, made tighter by the presence of some freighter anchorages in addition. The East bank fleeting subsides below Kenner, but West bank fleeting continues unbroken to the Avondale Bend at Haggaman. The river here flows over cable crossings by Louisiana Power & Light, Southern Bell Telegraph/Telephone Company, and pipelines by Shell, Texaco, and Air Products Inc. Deft paddlers will be rewarded with amazing views of the interior of America’s global grain and bulk goods exporting market as corn, wheat, rice, sorghum, and soybeans are scooped or sucked out of the same barges you have been paddling beside for thousands of miles, and are dumped onto conveyor belts, or other apparatus, and then reloaded onto sea-going freighters bound for far flung continents over the seven seas.

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