Yes Randi, a lot of other rivers feed into the Mississippi River. Up where the Ohio and several others feed into it is usually as far up as we go with the now and then trip up as far as St. Louis for us and on rare occasions we go down to 54 miles from the Gulf. I have done the whole length of the Mississippi just not all in the same trip.

With all the rivers that feed into it that is why it is so prone to flooding when some areas get a lot of rainfall. Right now, most of it is above flood stage and then the melting snow from the north will add to it.