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.Read More

2025 Richard Hall Trail Story

A new trail story has been added to our website from Richard Hall. Richard interestingly enough weighed his entire pack and shared that content in this trail story to the gram. This may be useful to other trail users. Enjoy reading andRead More

Shawneetown Library Book Talk/Signing

On Monday, November 3rd, Dr. Jim Schroeder will be giving a presentation/discussion starting at 5:30 PM at the Shawneetown Library.  He will be selling his books and doing a signing after the book talk.  The talk will focus on his newest bookRead More

New Book on Hiking the R2R with Kids

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

Carmen Williams 2024 Thru Hike Trail Story

Carmen submitted to us a Youtube video that he created for his 2024 R2R through hike at the age of 71. Our review of this video found that a few video segments were out of sequence with the actual trail. Overall though,Read More

Darral Ward 2024 Thru Hike Trail Story

I just posted a short trail story written by Darral Ward on his April 2024 adventure to hike the R2R Trail from Grand Tower to Elizabethtown, IL. Give it a quick read.

David Hilt Segmented Trail Story

For those that are interested in the trail and hiking it in segments, David has put together a great and detailed story of how he hiked the trail over the 2023/2024 fall & winter hiking season.

Glenn Lawrentz Jr. R2R Adventure

Hi All: Glenn has authored a complete novel on his and Joe Ulmer’s River to River Trail adventure in April 2023. The novel also chronicles some of Glenn’s life journey that lead him to his River to River Trail hike. The novelRead More

Texas hikers give back to the R2R Trail

The River to River Trail Society would like to extend a sincere THANK YOU to Karl Van Scyoc and his 4-5 buddies that came to Southern Illinois to hike the R2R trail in March 2023 from the Houston, TX area. Karl isRead More