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  • Great Rates
  • Blog
    • History
      • Nathan Bedford Forrest in Tunica County
      • When Paw Was A Putting Maw
      • Mats For All The Fishies
      • Bait Shop Tales
      • Walking Home From School
      • The Mule Train
      • Discovery Of Ole Man River
      • The Cutoff Airstrip
      • Big Bard, My Dad
      • The Weir Dam
      • The Wildlife League
      • Looking Back
      • Hickie’s Place
      • Casinos for Tunica
    • Tait Tate
      • Follow The Red Clover
      • AD Applies for a Job at Tunica Manufacturing
      • The Hollywood
      • The Big Roy Buddha
      • The Timber Cruise
      • The Big Swamp Rabbit Hunt
      • Big Bard Growing Up
      • Cousin Simp And His Hammer
      • The Tattletale
      • The Cutoff, In The Beginning
      • Cajun Pap
      • Grabblin or Noodlin’
      • The Cutoff’s Burial At Sea
      • Droughts of the 80s
      • Morning at Bordeaux Point RV Park
    • News
      • The Aurora Borealis Moves South
      • Bordeaux Point Security Staff
      • Big Changes on the Cutoff
    • Specials
      • The Snowbird Special
      • Happy New Year – 2022 Annual Boat Ramp Pass Special
  • Area Map
  • Park Rules
  • Rental Agreement
  • Register/Login
  • Home
  • Great Rates
  • Blog
    • History
      • Nathan Bedford Forrest in Tunica County
      • When Paw Was A Putting Maw
      • Mats For All The Fishies
      • Bait Shop Tales
      • Walking Home From School
      • The Mule Train
      • Discovery Of Ole Man River
      • The Cutoff Airstrip
      • Big Bard, My Dad
      • The Weir Dam
      • The Wildlife League
      • Looking Back
      • Hickie’s Place
      • Casinos for Tunica
    • Tait Tate
      • Follow The Red Clover
      • AD Applies for a Job at Tunica Manufacturing
      • The Hollywood
      • The Big Roy Buddha
      • The Timber Cruise
      • The Big Swamp Rabbit Hunt
      • Big Bard Growing Up
      • Cousin Simp And His Hammer
      • The Tattletale
      • The Cutoff, In The Beginning
      • Cajun Pap
      • Grabblin or Noodlin’
      • The Cutoff’s Burial At Sea
      • Droughts of the 80s
      • Morning at Bordeaux Point RV Park
    • News
      • The Aurora Borealis Moves South
      • Bordeaux Point Security Staff
      • Big Changes on the Cutoff
    • Specials
      • The Snowbird Special
      • Happy New Year – 2022 Annual Boat Ramp Pass Special
  • Area Map
  • Park Rules
  • Rental Agreement
  • Register/Login

Bordeaux Point RV Park

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1000 Loggerhead Lane

Tunica, MS 38676

Peaceful, No Traffic Noise

Largest Campground in Mississippi

130 Camping Lots

Always an Open Spot

Access to Our Boat Ramp

Open Year 'Round

The First Fish Camp on the Cutoff

Fishing, Hunting, Golf Cart Friendly

Six Casinos Near By

Close to Two Golf Courses

Across the Levee from the Levee Commissary

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Image © by Kathy Kreise

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1000 Loggerhead Lane

Tunica, MS 38676

Peaceful, No Traffic Noise

Largest Campground in Mississippi

130 Camping Lots

Always A Spot Open

Access to our Boat Ramp

Open Year 'Round

The First Fish Camp on the Cutoff

Fishing, Hunting, Golf Cart Friendly

Six Casinos Near By

Close to Two Golf Courses

Very Close to the Levee Commissary

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and Tait Tate Stories

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Bordeaux Point RV Park

Camping with an RV, in the summer, in the Memphis area, is tricky.  If you call around you’ll probably find they are booked up solid through November.  If you do find an open spot you will find your rig packed in like a sardine in a can.

At Bordeaux Point RV Park, space is never a problem.  You aren’t assigned a spot, you chose one yourself.  In fact, if you are long term – and we love long term – there is even room to plant a small garden, and many have.

Here is an aerial view of Bordeaux Point RV Park.  There are some slots with pads poured but even the grassy lots are firm ground with high pea-gravel content, and wouldn’t 130 pads be an awfully ugly park?

 

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The Memphis RV Parks may have a pool, but not a lake with access to the Mississippi River, or fishing, or boating, or hunting in season.

In a Memphis Park you may find a store, and it may even sell beer, but not one (The Levee Commissary) with a full bar featuring great food, darts, pool tables and daily specials, and the store has the cheapest milk in Tunica, but don’t tell everybody about that.

When in a Memphis RV Park, or even a Casino RV Park, there usually are no trees to speak of.  Bordeaux Point RV Park is adjacent to forest land owned by the Army Corps of Engineers, a 20 mile horseshoe Lake and we have plenty of trees for shade.  Shade is important in Mississippi.

Bordeaux Point RV Park is one of those places you visit on vacation and wish you never had to go home.  Well you don’t, and at quite reasonable rates.  Think of it as “On Golden Pond” but on the Mississippi River, and without Katherine Hepburn, of course.

 

$250

Per Month

$45.00 Cnty Water/Sewer

130 Lots

Free Boat Ramp Usage

Levee Commissary

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$200

Per Week

All Utillities Included

City Water and Sewer

Free Boatramp Usage

Levee Commissary

Call Now

$35

Per Night

All Utillities Included

City Water and Sewer

Free Boatramp Usage

Levee Commissary

Call Now

$250

Per Month

$45.00 City Water/Sewer

130 Lots

Free Boatramp Usage

Levee Commissary

Call Now

$200

Per Week

All Utillities Included

City Water and Sewer

Free Boatramp Usage

Levee Commissary

Call Now

$35

Per Night

All Utillities Included

City Water and Sewer

Free Boatramp Usage

Levee Commissary

Call Now

History of Bordeaux Point RV Park

Bordeaux Point RV Park, being at an elevation of 192′, or a Memphis River Gauge of 37 feet, is the highest elevation on the Mississippi River in Tunica County.  Native Indian tribes, knowing the contour of the land, always built their villages on the highest lands along the Mississippi to be protected from the annual flooding.  In 1620 Hernando Desoto discovered the Mississippi River in Tunica County, Mississippi.  Before the Civil War began, Mark Twain piloted his paddlewheeler steamer around what is now our Tunica Lake.

In 1934 my Grandfather John Tait bought this property from the Woolfolk family and became a farmer.  Grandaddy was a Champaign mule trader and he and Mike Costalo, the King of the Gypsies, were mule suppliers.  In those days a plantation couldn’t operate without a mule breeder, and that was what Grandaddy loved.

in 1937 the Yazoo Mississippi Delta Levee was being built and they purchased the land from my family, the Owen’s, and built the levee across the property, putting the 40 acres inside the levee.

The property is located on the East bank of the Mississippi River at Mile Marker 632, which means we are 632 miles from New Orleans by way of the Mississippi River.

 
 
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My Grandfather passed away in 1942 and my Grandmother, Biggie, ran everything.  In 1947 the US Army Corps of Engineers did the last rechannelization of the Mississippi River.  The Tunica Curve was a 20 mile bend in the river with the North and South ends of curve 1/2 mile apart.  With their dredge and a ton of dynamite the US Army Corps of Engineers changed the course of the Mighty Mississippi and shortened a 20 mile bend to a 1/2 mile long straight waterway.  This created an oxbow (horseshoe) lake named the Tunica Cutoff after the Corps’ name for the project.   The Corps dredged in the north and the south end of the lake and created Tunica Lake, one of the best hunting and fishing lakes within 200 miles of Memphis Tennessee.

Biggie was on the porch, in the swing, in the Spring of 1958 when a bearded man came up the drive.  He wanted to set up a tent on her property on Tunica Lake and he would pay a yearly fee of 5 catfish per year, caught that day, skinned and ready to cook.  Biggie agreed and with a handshake his rent was paid in full for a year.  There was Biggie and her three children, one being my mother Mary Ann, and enough for a guest supper that night.  Thanks to Mr. Catfish, and the new business Biggie started that day, it grew into what we have today at Bordeaux Point RV Park.

 

Explore Lake Tunica, or Brave the Mighty Mississip'...

Image © by Kathy Kreise

Area Map

Green markers indicate Casinos,

Blue signifies Restaurants,

Purple are County facilities of interest,

while the Red marker is, of course, Bordeaux Point RV Park.

Area Map

Green markers indicate Casinos,

Blue signifies Restaurants,

Purple are County facilities of interest,

while the Red marker is, of course, Bordeaux Point RV Park.

Fish Report by Tait Tate

Well, we hain’t heard from Tait Tate for some time now, obviously.

But not to worry.  He usually does a kind of hibernation during the winter.  We reckon some-wheres on the peninsula but we jes’ cain’t be sure.

He’ll be back tellin’ us about the fishin’.  He always comes back.

We kinda think it has somethin’ to do with that gold coin he wears.

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