Does the Mississippi river flow south to north at all?

Answer 1

Old Man River HAS flowed south to north before, but normally it flows north to south. In 1811 and 1812 it is said that 3 earthquakes reversed the Mississippi River's direction of flow.

According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River
"Other changes in the course of the river have occurred because of earthquakes along the New Madrid Fault Zone, which lies near the cities of Memphis and St. Louis. Three earthquakes in 1811 and 1812, estimated at approximately 8 on the Richter Scale, were said to have temporarily reversed the course of the Mississippi. These earthquakes also created Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee from the altered landscape near the river. The faulting is related to an aulacogen (geologic term for a failed rift) that formed at the same time as the Gulf of Mexico."

The Mississippi is the world's 4th largest river, and the largest river in the United States. Of the top ten largest rivers in the world only the Nile flows from south to north.

However, in the past things were not always as they are now. Yellowstone National Park is the top of a super volcano. The geysers, boiling mud parks, and the interesting natural formations around Yellowstone are all products of the volcanic vent under the ground. When this volcano finally explodes it will be a huge explosion that will dwarf any explosion in recorded history. It would be the equivalent of several hydrogen bombs and it will send ash across almost all of the US. When that happens then the Mississippi River will flow north into the huge crater. Oh, we are overdue for another eruption (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_volcano and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera and the BBC & Discovery Docu-Drama Supervolcano).

The Mississippi River is an old river and has cut a channel down as deep as it can. This makes the river wander occasionally. Mark Twain said that one day a man could go to sleep in Mississippi and wake up Arkansas. Mark Twain was a riverboat pilot just before the American Civil War and that shaped a lot of his work. The job of a Mississippi Riverboat Pilot was a difficult one, the river would change, depositing and washing away new sandbars. It is these sandbars that have created the small horseshoe lakes near the river. It is possible that the water could run backward in these lakes, but if they rejoin the Mississippi then they will once again flow south.

Answer 2

No, the river flows north to south the entire way. If it went north to south then the Gulf would be flowing into the United States mainland.

Answer 3

Yes, it leaves Itaska State Park flowing north for a short distance before turning southward. Mn Hwy 200 has a canoe launch to the north of the park in to the Mississippi. I was there yesterday 5/15/16.

Answer 4

It flows south. here is all the information about the mississippi river you will ever want to know.

Answer 5

all rivers flow south because of gravity nd elevation but not the nile... so obv it flows south