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
In case you missed it, here is a link to the article published by Les Winkler in today’s Southern newspaper.
Some of you may have heard about the 6,800 miles American Discovery Trail, discoverytrail.org. This is a National trail, part city, part small town, part forest, part mountains, part desert, an all-in-one trail. The ADT stretches from Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware,Read More
River to River Trail Guide Version 5.4_202104 has been uploaded to the Societies website. Updates included in this release include: Added a chapter on planning a thru hike with the help of Bob Ellis of Two Bob’s Adventures. This also includes infoRead More
On Wednesday May 13, 2020 Gillum Ferguson did a 18 min interview with Tom Miller to talk about the Society and the R2R trail. Give the interview a listen from WJPF’s website or ours as linked below. https://www.wjpf.com/episode/newsradio-wjpf-interview-with-gillum-ferguson-may-13-2020/
The River-to-River Trail Society regrets to announce that its scheduled public hikes on March 21, 22, and 28 have been cancelled. The reason for the cancellation is to assist in retarding the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID 19) pursuant to guidance fromRead More
The Forest Service Crews recently completed a three mile reroute of the R2R trail in the Lusk Creek Wilderness. This reroute is between trail 425 and Little Lusk Creek on the east end. The FS has been working on the reroute forRead More
Because of the rain today, the hike leaders cancelled the event when those that did show up decided they didn’t want to hike. The hike leaders have also elected to offer to lead the hike tomorrow for anybody that is interested. TheRead More