Saturday, December 13, 2025 Hike Announcement

The River to River Trail Society announces its 8th public hike of the 2025 Fall hiking season on Dec. 13th.  Hiking: Cedar Lake Spillway (Jackson County). This hike is free and open to the public. This will be a moderately difficult thru-hike approximately 7 miles in length, approximately 4 plus hours hiking time. The leader of this hike can be reached at 708-471-7500 for more information. Hikers should meet at 10:00 am at the Lirley Trailhead. This hike is intended for people in very good health who have done some hiking. Hiking sticks and boots or sturdy shoes are recommended. Hikers should bring their own water and snacks. No dogs please. This hike will require a 25 minute shuttle to Landreth Road. This hike has steep grades and some of the rock areas may be slick if it has rained. This hike may be tracked using the Avenza App. map R2R 22 & R2R 23 or SNF Makanda & Cobden maps. For a map to the meeting location Lirley Trailhead click this blue link Lirley Trailhead and a map will open up, and then click the Directions button and a driving map will be created which will allow you to plan your driving directions to the meeting area. Prior to participating in any hikes, the River to River Trail Society requests that all hikers read the 2023 Trail Society Waiver which can be found on the River to River website at the following link https://rivertorivertrail.net/ and then sign off on this waiver prior to the beginning of the hike. A copy of the waiver will be at the Lirley Trailhead meeting area for your signature.

Saturday November 15, 2025 Hike Summary

On a warm Saturday November 15th, we met just a few hundred feet North of the Camp Cadiz campgrounds. Sam Morales was our hike leader. We had a total of 16 hikers, including 3 new hikers. We set off West down a lane, then soon encountered a path that was getting overgrown, with little equine usage. We then broke off the path Northwards, and we were off trail most of the day. Most of the leaves had fallen, so even if there was a trail, it would have been difficult to find. We did find a “dry” waterfall or 2, and ate lunch and took the group picture at 1 of them. Sam also led us to the “horizontal” window that is quite unique. We hiked just a bit over 4 miles on a Very warm November Saturday. 

We Only have 2 hikes left…the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend, led by Steve Melville, meeting at Rim Rock at the usual time, and then 1 last hike 2 weeks after that, skipping the 2nd shotgun deer season. 

C’mon out and Join Us. 

Until then, “See ya’ll on the Trail 

Happy Thanksgiving, 

Saturday, November 29, 2025 Hike Announcement

The River-to-River Trail Society announces its 7th public hike of the 2023 Fall hiking season on Nov. 29th. Hiking: Thacker Hollow/Initial Tree (Hardin County/Gallatin County). This hike is free and open to the public. This will be a hike of moderate difficulty, 5 miles in length, 4 hours hiking time. This will be a thru-hike. The leader of this hike can be reached at 314-223-3061 for more information. Hikers should meet at 10:00 am at the Rim Rock parking area. This hike is intended for people in very good health who have done some hiking. Hiking sticks and boots or sturdy shoes are recommended. Hikers should bring their own water and snacks. No dogs please. Hikers will need to shuttle for this hike. There are 3 streams to be crossed and hikers may need to walk rocks when crossing streams. Hikers’ shoes and or boots may become wet when crossing streams if it has rained. One-half of a mile of this hike is off trail. Some sloped areas. This hike may be tracked using the Avenza App. maps to use River to River Bundle map 03 & SNF Multi Day Hike High Knob – Pounds Hollow Loop or SNF Karbers Ridge Quad map. For a map to the meeting location at the Rim Rock parking area click on this blue link Rim Rock Parking Area and a map will open up, and then click the Directions button and a driving map will be created which will allow you to plan your driving directions to the meeting area. Prior to participating in any hikes, the River-to-River Trail Society requests that all hikers read the 2023 Trail Society Waiver which can be found on the River-to-River website at the following link https://rivertorivertrail.net/ and then sign off on this waiver prior to the beginning of the hike. A copy of the waiver will be at the Rim Rock meeting area for your signature.

Saturday November 8, 2025 Hike Summary

What a day for a hike it was!!  On Saturday November 8th, was clear & sunny. We gathered at the parking lot of the visitors center of Giant City State park, with a crowd of 23 hikers, including 4 new hikers, to be led by Fred Scott. We headed Southwest ( I think) out of the parking lot and down the trails. For the first half of the hike, we saw Dozens of other hikers, families, small groups, even rapellers out enjoying the day. We crossed a few streams with a bit of water, but, still, due to the fall dryness, no water flows at all. But, fall tree colors were finally showing, It was a Beautiful day to be out recreating. We ate lunch and took the group picture at a shelter bluff area, then moved on to where Fred and 3 other gents had spotted vehicles to bring us all back to the parking lot. We hiked about 4.5 miles today. 

Next weeks’ hike, will be meeting at 10am, at  Camp Cadiz in Hardin county, to be led by Sam Morales. 

Until then, “See ya’ll On the Trail”, 

Saturday, November 15, 2025 Hike Announcement

The River to River Trail Society announces its 6th public hike of the 2025 Fall hiking season on Nov. 15th.  Hiking: Pot Belly Arch (Hardin County). This hike is free and open to the public. This will be a very difficult in and out hike approximately 4.5 miles (bush whacking, 4 miles of this hike has no trails to follow) in length approximately 4 hours hiking time. The leader of this hike can be reached at 618-384-1321 for more information. Hikers should meet at 10:00 am at the Camp Cadiz camping area. This hike is intended for people in very good health who have done some hiking. Hiking sticks and boots or sturdy shoes are recommended. Hikers should bring their own water and snacks. No dogs please. Hikers will be required to cross 6 streams, of which 2 are very wide. If it has rained, hiker’s boots and or shoes may become wet when crossing the streams. Hikers will also be required to walk rocks when crossing the streams. Some steep slopes on this hike. This hike may be tracked using the Avenza App. map R2R-03A or SNF Saline Mines & Karbers Ridge maps. For a map to the meeting location at Camp Cadiz camping area click this blue link Camp Cadiz and a map will open up, and then click the Directions button and a driving map will be created which will allow you to plan your driving directions to the meeting area. Prior to participating in any hikes, the River to River Trail Society requests that all hikers read the 2023 Trail Society Waiver which can be found on the River to River website at the following link  https://rivertorivertrail.net/ and then sign off on this waiver prior to the beginning of the hike. A copy of the waiver will be at the Camp Cadiz meeting area for your signature.

Saturday November 1, 2025 Hike Summary

On a cloudy but warm Saturday morning, 20 hikers gathered at the boat launch area at Duchman lake. Megan Henderson was our leader for the day. I think we had 1-2 new hikers with us. We proceeded back up the lane, and into the woods, following a new trail that is a re-route. We covered about 4 miles, and did see a few drops of water dribbling at a water fall. We ate lunch at the big shelter bluff/cave, where we also took the group picture. We headed back..’up top” of some of the areas we had been during the morning. Megan decided to get out to the road, and walk back in, to avoid any chances of us getting wet. We did pick up trash along the roadway, coming back to the vehicles. 

2025 Lucas Wuthrich Trail Story

A new trail story has been added to our website from Lucas Wuthrich. Lucas interestingly enough weighed his entire pack and shared that content in this trail story. Lucas also documented a trouble area of trail that others may need to note. Enjoy reading and thanks to Lucas for sharing his story.

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