The River to River Trail

Hello All!! The 2022 River To River Trail Society Annual meeting will be here soon. It is scheduled for Saturday, June 4th, 10 am, at the Vienna, IL. City Park, which coincides with National Trails Day The park is adjacent to theRead More

For the last official River to River Trail Society hike of the Spring 2022 hiking season, we met at the old Shawnee Mart parking lot on IL. Rt. 145 at Eddyville. Marcus Owens & Steve Mitchell were our leaders for the day.Read More

Lindsey Roberts completes the R2R trail in a Fastest Known Time (FKT) two years in a row. In 2021 she got the female supported FKT and now in 2022 she got the female self supported FKT. See her trail story below:

Sat. April 30th, we met at the visitors’ center at Giant City State Park. Fred Scott led 18 other hikers, in and around various areas of the park. It was a bit overcast, but Temps were almost perfect  We carpooled from theRead More

On May 1, 2022 the River to River Trail Society sponsored a trash blast along  2.5 miles of the River to River trail from Elizabethtown to a 1/2 mile north of Lake Tecumsah.  The volunteer crew shown in the above photos fromRead More

The River-to-River Trail Society announces its tenth and final guided hike of the spring, 2022 hiking season, on Saturday, May 7, in Lusk Creek Wilderness, in Pope County. The hike is free and open to the public.The hike will be a difficult hike ofRead More

The River to River Trail Society wishes to congratulate Mr. Tom Logsdon on his completion of the River to River trail.  He hiked a total of 168 miles over 17 non-consecutive days; starting on January 14th and ending on April 24th, 2022. Read More

Hike of Sat. April 23,2022. This IS a bit late, sorry folks, I kept forgetting. We gathered at the Vienna, IL. U.S. Forest Service office and then moved out to Bulge Hole Ecological Area, which is, “by the crow”, almost straight NorthRead More

The River-to-River Trail Society announces its ninth hike of the Spring, 2022 hiking season, on Saturday, April 30, 2022, over several trails at Giant City State Park, near Makanda, Illinois. The hike is free and open to the public. This will beRead More

A new trail story has just been uploaded to our website for your reading enjoyment and for future hikers to see how different people do their hikes on the River to River Trail. Thank You Vince Baker