The River to River Trail

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

The Trail Society has scheduled a trash blast work day for Sunday May 1st, 2022 (May 15th is the rain out day). The plan is to clean along the first 2 miles of the River to River Trail between Watson Lane andRead More

The River-to-River Trail Society will hold its annual General Meeting on Saturday, June 4, at a location to be announced. Our annual meeting always occurs on the National Trails Day which is the first Saturday in June. During this annual meeting the SocietyRead More

Susan & Kerry Durfee led 22 other hikers into the North part of the Burden Falls Wilderness area today. It Was a perfect day to hike, with temps great for hiking and skies of blue. We again had several new hikers andRead More

River-to-River Trail Society announces its eighth guided hike of the Spring, 2022 hiking season on Saturday, April 23. The hike will be a wildflower hike at Bulge Hole Ecological Area in Johnson County led by noted Illinois botanist Chris Benda.  The previouslyRead More

On Saturday, April 9th, Bob Mulcahy led 14 other hikers into the Piney Creek Ravine, which in 2001, was put on the National Register of Historic Places. We had 4 new hikers. I had not been to this area prior to today,Read More

The River-to-River Trail Society announces its seventh guided hike of the Spring, 2022 hiking season, on Saturday, April 16, in the north part of Burden Falls Wilderness. This hike is free and open to the public. It will be a hike ofRead More

Saturday, April 2nd, 2022 Bill Gilmour led 18 other hikers into the Jackson Hollow Ecological Area, which is East of Trigg Tower road.  His original hike had been planned for the West Side of Trigg Tower road, into the Finke Sandstone areaRead More