The River to River Trail

Just giving everyone a heads up, the FS will be putting on our Herbicide Applicator training this month. This training is for our volunteers who attend our invasive species removal events in spring and fall. Volunteers will only be allow to applyRead More

The River to River Trail Society announces its 1st public hike of the 2025 spring hiking season on March 1st. Hiking: 1000 Drips (Pope County). This hike is free and open to the public. This will be a thru-hike approximately 5.2 milesRead More

The River-to River Trail Society announces its schedule of free guided hikes in and about the Shawnee National Forest for Spring, 2025. All hikes are open to the public free of charge. No reservations are required except where noted on schedule. TheseRead More

On the cooler, cloudy morning of Saturday, November 30th, 15 hikers gathered in the camping ground of Giant City State Park to be led on the last hike of the Fall 2024 hiking season, by Bob Mulcahy. We had several new hikers,Read More

As update on construction progress, the 2024 East Side reroute between Dutchman Lake Road and the Dam is now complete and has the trail markers have been installed as of December 10, 2024. The remaining work on the west side is expectedRead More

On Saturday November 23rd, 9 people from the Shawnee National Forest Friends and the River to River Trail Society, gathered at Garden of Gods to do a trash blast, that had been postponed from late September National Public Lands day, because ofRead More

Well, this hike…we were “blown away”.  We had soooo many hikers, newbies and everyone, that we had to “revise” things. Sam Morales led this hike, North of the Lusk Creek area, on a perfect Saturday for hiking, sunny and mild temperatures. AllRead More

The River to River Trail Society announces its 8th public hike of the 2024 fall hiking season on Nov. 30th. Hiking: Red Cedar Trail (Jackson County). This hike is free and open to the public. This will be a loop hike ofRead More

Hikers this Saturday met at a “pull-off” area on Boat Dock Rd, east of IL. Rt. 127, South of Murphysboro, Illinois. It was overcast and almost a drizzle when 16 hikers, led by Cathy Jennings,  including 3 new hikers, set off, workingRead More

Back in 2019, Jim Schroeder started section hiking the R2R Trail with his kids who were between 9 & 13 at the time. They finished the trail 4 years later in 2023. He has published a new book entitled On the TrailRead More