RECREATION
Camping, Hiking, and Parks
Lake Monroe
This beautiful, 99-acre lake is loaded with bream, bass, crappie, and catfish. It is primarily a fishing and family picnicking/camping lake. No skiing, trolling speed only. Amenities include restrooms, boat ramp, picnic tables, camping electrical/water hookups, and a pavilion.
Blue Bluff Recreation Area
For nature lovers, this scenic park offers 92 R/V hookups with water/electricity, playgrounds, picnic areas, hiking trails, amphitheater, interpretative walks, boat ramps, docks, and other amenities. Visitors may hike, swim, water ski, fish, or simply enjoy the view from the majestic bluffs that rise 80 feet above Aberdeen Lake on the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway.
Reservations may be made at Reserve America 877-444-6777 or visit Recreation.gov.
Morgan’s Landing Park
This beautiful, 99-acre lake is loaded with bream, bass, crappie, and catfish. It is primarily a fishing and family picnicking/camping lake. No skiing, trolling speed only. Amenities include restrooms, boat ramp, picnic tables, camping electrical/water hookups, and a pavilion.
Fishing and Boating
Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway
This Corp of Engineers managed impoundment flows through the very beautiful Tombigbee River bottomland. The Waterway provides unlimited boating, skiing, hunting, or fishing enthusiasts. Its waters are loaded with many favorite freshwater fish species, including catfish, crappie, bream, and largemouth bass.
It provides approximately 15,000 acres of navigatable water. Its depth ranges from four to ten feet, so it is one of the first bodies of water to warm each spring and summer, making for an extended boating season. There are four lakes along its north to south path through Monroe County, including Smithville Lake, Amory Lake, Aberdeen Lake, and Columbus Lake.
There are five very conveniently located boat ramps in Monroe County.
- Amory Boat Ramp
- Morgan’s Landing Campground
- Smithville Marina
- Becker Bottom Boat Ramp
- Aberdeen Marina
Waterway maps can be downloaded from http://tenntom.org/
Aberdeen Marina
For recreational boaters who are traveling along the 234 mile Waterway, the Aberdeen Marina offers fuel, groceries, marine supplies, overnight dockage, covered slips, a courtesy car, available mechanic, and water and electrical hookups.
Info: 662-369-9803
Golf
River Birch Golf Club
River Birch Golf Club is a professional, 18-hole golf course and residential development located within the city limits of Amory, Mississippi. A convenient drive from major cities in the mid-South. River Birch assures a golf challenge that ranks among the best courses in the region.
Party and banquet facilities can accommodate up to 200 people for your next golf or company outing.
Amory Golf Course
The 9-hole “Amory” course at the Amory Golf Course facility in Amory, Mississippi, features 3,187 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 36. Designed by Buck White, the Amory Golf Course opened in 1940.
Owned and operated by the City of Amory.
Hunting
Canal Section Wildlife Management Area
The Canal Section Wildlife Management Area is over 26,000 acres of public hunting land adjacent to the Waterway, and it’s managed by the Mississippi Dept. of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks. There are good deer, turkey, wild boar, squirrel, and rabbit populations. If you plan on hunting, make sure you have a valid Mississippi hunting license and a WMA Use Permit (can be purchased where the licenses are sold). Maps of the area can be found at the numerous check-in stations located at various locations along the property boundaries.
For more information, go to www.mdwfp.com