Mile 300.2 - 300.2 - 298 RBD Miles Bar Towhead

John Ruskey

20 Apr 2026 � 1 min read

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 the best camping, but if the winds are blowing hard out of the west and the river is high, you might want to opt for Miles. It is surrounded by mountains of rip-rap along its steep banks, but the very bottom end is accessible by cutting back up into it once beyond the last line of rip-rap. If the water is high (above 40NG) you can reach the sandy top without having to cross over the rocks.

Waves of refreshment wash over us paddlers when we discover a lacerated river. Even here on the big river, the biggest and most worked over river in North America, we love the multi-channeled river. The braided channel is healthier than the single channel river, because it makes more connections to the surrounding landscape, and refreshens and regenerates the water as it flows downstream towards the Gulf. At the same time it creates more islands, and more places to explore behind the islands. Beavers love the braided channel because of the expanses of willows (their favorite food), and waterfowl because of the exponential increase in wetlands. Paddlers are like the beaver, we like more water, not less. And we’re like the waterfowl, we like to explore the wetlands.

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