Mile 768.9 - Richardon’s Landing

LBD 768.9 Richardon’s Landing

All that remains of Richardon’s Landing is a deep inlet full of powerful boils and eddies and the ragged edge of asphalt that was once Tennessee Highway 59, which was ripped from its final hundred feet by the insatiable appetite of the main channel currents. A small creek enters the river down a deep muddy bayou with gravely bottom. You can sometimes find a small purchase at the creek’s mouth for a possible quick stop, but for picnics or camps it would be best to keep on downstream to sandbars around Reverie Landing/Cedar Point (LBD 766-763), or ten miles further to the biggest and best island in the area, Dean’s Island.