Playground equipment and baseball field. A bathhouse with hot showers, laundry facilities, and a central dumping station are located in the developed camping area. Picnic at Uncle Joe's Landing-near the site of the 1927 Mississippi River flood. This is a typical location on the banks of the river that inspired Mark Twain to write Huckleberry Finn. The Mississippi Delta sits on 40 feet of some of the best top soil in the world, a gift from the Mississippi River floods of years gone by.
Agriculture is still the number one industry of Bolivar County.
Cotton Cotton was the major money making crop in the Delta until the early 1990's. Planting time begins in April, weather permitting. Harvest begins late August through October. Corn Corn acreage is increasing and, in some instances, is being used as a rotation crop with cotton. Rice Bolivar County is the largest rice producing county in Mississippi.