The designated headwaters of the Mississippi River at Lake Itasca, MN.
The Mississippi River at Brainerd, MN.
Saint Anthony Falls, (first named Chutes de Sainte-Antoine in 1680 by Father Louis Hennepin), Minneapolis, MN.
Al Cooper holds Angel at the National Eagle Center, Wabasha, MN. The Wabasha-Nelson Bridge (MN 60/ WI 25) leads to the Nelson-Trevino Bottoms State Natural Area in Nelson, WI.
The Black Hawk Bridge (IA 9/ WI 82) joins Lansing, IA, and Crawford Township, WI.
Looking downriver from an overlook at Effigy Mounds National Park, IA.
A wooded Joyce Island (left) and the Archer Daniels Midland Company’s Cogeneration Plant, Clinton, IA.
Looking upriver at St. Louis (top left), MO, and East St. Louis (bottom right), IL.
Pcr 228 and Levee Road, near McBride, MO.
Oxbow bends and farmland north of Cairo, IL.
Senior River Chaplain Kempton Baldridge (left) with Capt. Jonathan Butler in the pilothouse of the MV Loree Eckstein.
The Dorena-Hickman Ferry, Hickman, KY.
Floodgate and Bunge North America’s grain terminal, Caruthersville, MO.
Cottonfield, north of Bogota, TN.
Looking downriver at Greenbelt Park along the riverside, the Memphis Pyramid and downtown, and the Hernando de Soto (I–40) and (top right) Memphis-Arkansas (I–55) Bridges, Memphis, TN.
On board the MV Mississippi, south of Memphis, TN.
Looking upriver from Mhoon Landing Park, Tunica, MS.
The Best Feather Dance Troop performs at the annual “Native American Days” festival at Winterville Mounds.
The American Queen at Vicksburg, MS.
Vicksburg Battlefield from the steps of the Illinois State Memorial, Vicksburg National Military Park, Vicksburg, MS.
Earthen levee at Glasscock Townhead, south of Natchez, MS.
The Old River Control Structure near Point Breeze, LA, includes the Sidney A. Murray Hydroelectric Station, an overbank structure, low-sill structure, and auxiliary structure.
A snowy egret, Atchafalaya Basin, LA.
Moonlight over the ExxonMobil refinery along I–110, Baton Rouge, LA.
The impressive allee of live oaks and double row of twenty-two slave cabins at Evergreen Plantation.
Musicians and entertainers (above and right) on Royal Street, New Orleans, LA.
Top to bottom: Seabrook Floodgate Complex at Lake Pontchartrain, Danziger Bridge (U.S. 90), High Rise Bridge (I–10), and Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, New Orleans, LA.
Snowy egrets, brown pelicans, and other waterfowl, Venice, LA.
An oil derrick among the changing wetlands, near Venice, LA.
A tanker heads upriver at Head of Passes, south of Pilottown, LA.