The River to River Trail

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.

Hello All!! The 2024 River To River Trail Society Annual meeting will be here soon. It is scheduled for Saturday, June 1st, 10 am, at the Vienna, IL. City Park, which coincides with National Trails Day The park is adjacent to the Tunnel HillRead More

On Saturday April 27th, 8 hikers met with Fred Scott at the Bell Smith Spring parking area. It was damp and cloudy, with a chance of some drizzles, which might have kept the numbers down for the hike. We had 1 newRead More

The River to River Trail Society announces its 10th public hike of the 2024 spring hiking season on May 4th. Hiking: To Bork’s Falls (Johnson County). This hike is free and open to the public. This will be a moderate hike, 4Read More

16 Hikers met leader Bil Gilmour at the east end of Illinois Rt. 147. It was sunny and a bit windy. We then vehicle-pooled North on Cedar Grove church rd, a few miles and turned West on a lane into the forestRead More

The River to River Trail Society announces its 9th public hike of the 2024 spring hiking season on Apr. 27th. Hiking: Bell Smith Springs (Pope County). This hike is free and open to the public. This will be a moderate thru hike,Read More

On a warm, sunny Saturday morning, 21 hikers gathered at the swimming pool parking lot of Dixon Springs State park. Shawn Gossman was our leader for the hike. We crossed the small wooden bridge and then under the highway bridge and followed theRead More

The River to River Trail Society announces its 8th public hike of the 2024 spring hiking season on Apr. 20th. Hiking: Trail 32 (Johnson County). This hike is free and open to the public. This will be a hike, 6 miles inRead More

On Saturday, April 6th, 16 hikers gathered at the East Trigg Trailhead, to be led by Sam Morales. We had several new hikers, including 3 from South Bend, Indiana.  There was also a large group, mainly from the Chicago area, that wentRead More

The River to River Trail Society announces its 7th public hike of the 2024 spring hiking season on Apr. 13th. Hiking: Ghost Dance Canyon (Pope County). This hike is free and open to the public. This will be a moderate hike, 2Read More