The River to River Trail

The River-to-River Trail Society announces its 5th public hike of the 2023 fall hiking season on Oct. 28th. Hiking: Godwin Trail (Union County). The Godwin Trail is a segment of the R2R trail. This hike is free and open to the public.Read More

On Saturday, October 14th, 12 hikers met at Ferne Clyffe State Park, to be led on a hike by Chris Drone. We had 4 New hikers: a couple from Colombia. Illinois, a son from North Carolina joining his dad, and a womanRead More

The River-to-River Trail Society announces its 4th public hike of the 2023 fall hiking season on Oct. 21st. Hiking: Salt Peter Cave, 20-person maximum capacity, Reservations Required (Pope County). This hike is free and open to the public. This will be a hikeRead More

On Sat. October 10th, 11 hikers met at the intersection of IL. Rt 145 & IL. Rt. 147. Bill Gilmour was our leader. We consolidated vehicles and went North on Cedar Grove Rd, then turned west on Naylor lane. We found a smallRead More

The Shawnee National Forest Service is looking for volunteers to help remove the seed pods from Japanese Chaff Flowers along the R2R Trail in the Dutchman Lake area. They plan on meeting at 9:00 am October 17, 2023 at the Dutchman LakeRead More

The River-to-River Trail Society announces its 3rd public hike of the 2023 fall hiking season on Oct. 14th. Hiking: Happy Hollow Trail, Ferne Clyffe State Park (Johnson County). This hike is free and open to the public. This will be a hikeRead More

Thanks to the generous donations the Society has received from many different River to River Trail Through hikers, the Society has elected to improve the trail by putting those funds back into the trail. As a result, the Society elected to tackleRead More

On Saturday September 30th, 7 hikers met Bill Gilmour, the hike leader at the Vienna City park to bike 7 miles up to the North end of the Breeden Trestle on the Tunnel Hill bike trail. 2 other hikers met at Sandborn Junction andRead More

The River-to-River Trail Society announces its 2nd public hike of the 2023 fall hiking season on Oct. 7th. Hiking: Millstone Lake Trail #32 & the R2R Trail (Johnson County). This hike is free and open to the public. This will be aRead More

The Ameren power utility work that used a portion of the R2R Trail for access on Map 15 has been completed in the past few weeks so trail hikers should no longer be affected by this work. The following map shows theRead More