Mile 652.5 - Friars Point Landing (unimproved)
LBD 652.5 Friars Point Landing (unimproved)
Several hundred yards below the McAlister Grain/Mississippi Limestone complex (you will see a line of shiny stainless steel grain elevators and piles of gravel and anchored tows) you can find a serviceable landing with access to Friars Point. Unimproved location. Primitive landing on muddy banks topped with sandy/muddy flats. Not recommended camping. Hide your vessel above or below and carry all valuables if you leave landing to visit Friars Point. At low water steep muddy banks with gooey muddy bottoms. At high water landing becomes submerged around HG 35, but paddlers can simply pull in wherever a good spot is found along the levee.
What’s to come further downstream:
Below Friars Point the big river convulses like a lazy snake on a hot summer day into the enormous floodplain added onto with the waters and wetlands of the Arkansas and the White Rivers. The Arkansas is the largest tributary below the Ohio and its single highest drainage, having come from the Central Colorado Rockies. This is the biggest river in North America and it sure feels like it! Go on to the next section of the Rivergator for more mouth-watering descriptions of the Big River!
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