128.8 - 127.3 LBD Bonnet Carre Anchorage

The Bonnet Carre Anchorage coincides exactly with the mileage of the spillway, so paddlers coming around Thirty Five Mile Point intending to stop at the Spillway will need to negotiate these freighters in one fashion or the other. As will other anchorages below Baton Rouge, there is very little activity within the Bonnet Carre Anchorage until the big vessels are getting ready to move (or when they are coming into anchorage).

127.3 LBD Spillway Boat Ramp

This is your last safe haven before the very busy gauntlet of petrochem giants found downstream for the next 3 miles. Stay on land at this location if conditions are bad, such as oncoming storms, high winds, or nightfall.

This ragged ramp is the only paved public boat ramp within the vicinity of the City of New Orleans. The Boat Ramp located at the south end of the spillway, LBD 127.3, and is paved with a jumble of revetment blocks, five layers wide, articulated concrete rectangles, held together by stainless steel wire, and typically narrow and steep. Be very cautious if loading or unloading a vessel here. Very little room for error on sides. Passing freighters make for big crashing waves. The concrete is broken up into slabs and very rough. The next possible public boat ramp is a primitive gravel ramp south of New Orleans in Plaquemines Parish at RBD mile 78.