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I've mentioned in a couple recent posts about watching the amazing river traffic on the Mississippi. The park in right on the river, even in it at flood stages, just across the river from Memphis (think Graceland, Sun Record, Stax Records, The Lorraine Motel and Civil Rights Museum, great BBQ, and lots of other things to do) via two Interstate highway bridges. There are three sections to the park. One section is back away from the river and the other two sections are right on the river. One of those is set up so motorhomes face the river through the windshield and the other section is set up for 5th wheels to have their tails toward the river. I'm currently in the latter section and parked "backwards" which requires running the utilities under the coach to get to the hookups. That inconvenience is more than worth the effort to get a great view of the river. I'm literally a coach length away from being in the water.

Currently, due to flooding to the north there is an amazing amount of driftwood floating by. Driftwood is like clouds in the sky, you can imagine they are all sorts of thing. My favorite is that the driftwood looks like mythic river monsters of all sorts of crazy shapes and movements. You can tell I'm easily entertained.

The sites are mostly long enough for our coaches and the while there are some gravel roads the turns are wide and the trees cut high. Some sites are paved. The approach road passes over the levee but I don't see any marks indicating bottoming out and in my 39ft coach it never occurred to me to worry. Just be prepared for a steep rise and decline, thankfully both are short.

Lots of travelers stop here for the night, get enthralled and regret not staying longer. It's about 2.5 miles off both I-40 and I-55.

I hope this helps