Mile 529.0 - LBD 529-525.5 Lakeport Towhead/American Bar

John Ruskey

20 Apr 2026 � 1 min read

LBD 529-525.5 Lakeport Towhead/American Bar

After sliding through the narrows past Sunnyside and underneath the monumental wonders of the new Greenville Bridge the downstream will be flushed vigorously outwards into the center of the mile wide main channel not far below. You will paddle over eleven major transcontinental petroleum pipelines, attesting to the importance of this location to commerce. The channel here opens up like a flower steadily increasing in width until it is almost three miles wide in high water at the top of Lakeport Towhead/American Bar. Here you will find your first best camping options below Greenville. A tall forested ridge runs along the main channel with endless campsite possibilities at all water levels. During high water you are more limited but you can get closer to the trees for shade and wind protection. During low water the top end sandbar extends two miles upstream from the trees and becomes a wonderland for birding and beach-combing. Several wreckages the result of the dangerous old Greenville Bridge have washed up here. One of particular note is a wooden barge with hand-forged nails that has been visible for years at low water. The entire island disappears at flood stage.

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