Mississippi River Knox Landing to Angola Ferry Landing West Bank South 12.5 statue miles
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 10.87 nm
- Elevation gain
- 23 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 33 ft
- Max elevation
- 43 ft
- TrailRank
- 61
- Min elevation
- 13 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Moving time
- 3 hours 30 minutes
- Time
- 4 hours 12 minutes
- Coordinates
- 3411
- Uploaded
- March 31, 2024
- Recorded
- March 2024
near Point Breeze, Louisiana (United States)
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Itinerary description
River height at Knox Landing was 43.0 as were 69 degree air, RH75p and S06 winds at the 10 am launch time. Easy to locate and well maintained Army Corps Engineers ramp access, parking and concrete boat ramp. No 🚻 restroom facilities and no trash receptacles. Nominal sand bank but unusable do to too much riprap between parking and water edge to navigate.
Water current was not lazy. Spot checked via drifting with winds 3 times and avg was 2.0 mph. Constantly changing current speed and direction was very noticeable all while generally fast flowing conditions within 300 feet of the bank.
Moving to the center portions of the river which increased the winds and subsequent wave generation was more of a challenge, yeah. One subsequent new realization is how long it takes to cross from one side of the river to the other. A lot more than we thought and hence much further down river. Cross early when trying meet a location on the other side.
Pushboat barge traffic volume was 7 or so boats during the 3.5 hour float time. While still formidable water obstacles their wave actions were manageable and mostly predictable. Stay far away from downstream screw bast. We monitored the marine radio channels with equipped radios that we also used for group communications.
The last 2 miles we hugged the bank and encountered a lot of back flow water that reduced our ground speed to 1 mph. Moved out towards the center and extra 100 feet and picked the current back up. Our inexperienced concern was missing or passing up our pull out point. Found it fine, aided by GPS.
Pull out at old ferry was a river sand beach without trees just driftwood. Smaller parking area with less maintenance but still very accessible pull out point. Old partial concrete launch ramp still available and usable. Same as launch area with no 🚻 restroom facilities and no trash receptacles. Did have tree bush cover though.
3.5 hrs total moving time
Launch winds S06
Landing winds S08 G17
Water current was not lazy. Spot checked via drifting with winds 3 times and avg was 2.0 mph. Constantly changing current speed and direction was very noticeable all while generally fast flowing conditions within 300 feet of the bank.
Moving to the center portions of the river which increased the winds and subsequent wave generation was more of a challenge, yeah. One subsequent new realization is how long it takes to cross from one side of the river to the other. A lot more than we thought and hence much further down river. Cross early when trying meet a location on the other side.
Pushboat barge traffic volume was 7 or so boats during the 3.5 hour float time. While still formidable water obstacles their wave actions were manageable and mostly predictable. Stay far away from downstream screw bast. We monitored the marine radio channels with equipped radios that we also used for group communications.
The last 2 miles we hugged the bank and encountered a lot of back flow water that reduced our ground speed to 1 mph. Moved out towards the center and extra 100 feet and picked the current back up. Our inexperienced concern was missing or passing up our pull out point. Found it fine, aided by GPS.
Pull out at old ferry was a river sand beach without trees just driftwood. Smaller parking area with less maintenance but still very accessible pull out point. Old partial concrete launch ramp still available and usable. Same as launch area with no 🚻 restroom facilities and no trash receptacles. Did have tree bush cover though.
3.5 hrs total moving time
Launch winds S06
Landing winds S08 G17
Waypoints
Mooring point
Intersection
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18 ft
One River paddle knowledge that was shared with us, stay away from fixed objects in the river.
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What an experience! Valuable information, to say the least.
Definitely unique, 10/10 would do again.