Mile 699.5 - Tunica Riverpark Museum Boat Ramp

LBD 699.5

Wide well maintained boat ramp. Best access in North Mississippi. Best year-round boat ramp between Memphis and Helena. Besides the Memphis Yacht Club this is the only place on the Lower Mississippi that you could possibly leave your vehicle overnight without fear of it being broken into. Check with museum security first. Possible ramp fee.

Tunica Riverpark Museum

Must-stop for any paddlers passing through this area. Interpretive exhibits designed by author John Barry (Rising Tide), aquarium, gift shop, snacks and wetlands trail. Contact: 866-517-4837 http://www.tunicariverpark.com/home

Basket Bar Dikes/Porter Lake Dikes

If you’re not making a landing at the Tunica Riverpark Museum you can stay RBD and jump behind a long series of beautiful islands along the Porter Lake Dikes and Basket Bar Dikes, with creamy sandbars throughout and thriving colonies of redwing blackbirds, terns and many waterfowl species (in season). Wilderness camping here is partially ruined by the proximity of the casinos, but only at night time when their stabbing lights flood the skies. During the daytime you hardly notice their presence, and when on the backsides of the islands you won’t see or hear them.