Mile 500.0 - RBD 500-495 Wilson Point Bar

John Ruskey

20 Apr 2026 � 1 min read

RBD 500-495 Wilson Point Bar

After getting flushed out Opossum Chute and the narrows at Corregidor, the canoeist or kayaker washes out into a gentle bend to the South at Mayersville past another Bunge elevator, a public boat ramp (Tennis Court Ramp) and a small refinery (Magnolia Resources, Inc). At high water Wilson Point Bar splits the ocean of water in two, the majority of the flow going wide around the bend, and a smaller portion staying right bank descending and flowing more slowly through a beautiful back channel. Nearing flood stage 48 on the Greenville Gauge the top of Wilson Point Bar splinters into a tapestry of smaller channels which flow over the top of the island in a dozen or more sluices through the sandbars and in between stands of willows, cottonwoods, sycamores and other scrubby vegetation. Deer, coyote, and wild boar inhabit this island and sometimes are seen or spooked out in high water, and the paddler enjoys a floating safari. Last time I paddled over Wilson Point three deer jumped up out of the brush and leaped into the small finger channel we had chosen and swam right across our bows! Not far downstream a bald eagle took to wing. Down the back channel another island is found almost directly across from the Magnolia Resources refinery.

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