Grand Tower Parking for R2R Trail hikers

With recent news that Devils Backbone Park at Grand Tower is closed, we reached out to the folks at Grand Tower and got the following response about parking at the park for R2R Trail hikers. Talked to Park Board President and heRead More

Clint Stevens Trail Story

A new trail story from someone that recently finished the trail was added to the Trail Society web page. Check it out. http://www.rivertorivertrail.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Clint-Stevens.pdf

New Trail Story from Tim Worth

For anybody that may be interested, we received a new trail story from Tim who hiked the trail in 2002 when the trail looked a lot different than it does today. Here is a direct link to Tim’s story on a differentRead More

Follow the Illinois Botanizer on his R2R trail hike

For those that may not have seen Christopher David Benda’s (Illinois Botanizer) posts on Facebook, he is doing a river to river trail through hike and posting a daily blog of his adventure.  You can follow his trip blog at https://illinoisbotanizer.blogspot.com/.