The River to River Trail

The River to River Trail Society announces its 3rd public hike of the 2025 spring hiking season on March 15th. Hiking: Jackson Falls (Pope County). This hike is free and open to the public. This will be a very difficult loop hikeRead More

On a Sunny, but, windy Saturday March 1st, Sam Morales gathered 28 hikers at the Indian Kitchen trailhead to hike into the Lusk Creek Wilderness. He had asked for and received special permission from the U.S. Forest service to take a largeRead More

The River to River Trail Society announces its 2nd public hike of the 2025 spring hiking season on March 8th. Hiking: Grindstaff Hollow (Gallatin County). This hike is free and open to the public. This will be a moderate thru-hike approximately 4Read More

As a final update to the subject reroute, the entire new trail is now completed and blazed. The trail maps 15 & 16 in Avenza have been updated and now are available for downloading to your device. There is still some minorRead More

Just giving everyone a heads up, the FS will be putting on our Herbicide Applicator training this month. This training is for our volunteers who attend our invasive species removal events in spring and fall. Volunteers will only be allow to applyRead More

The River to River Trail Society announces its 1st public hike of the 2025 spring hiking season on March 1st. Hiking: 1000 Drips (Pope County). This hike is free and open to the public. This will be a thru-hike approximately 5.2 milesRead More

The River-to River Trail Society announces its schedule of free guided hikes in and about the Shawnee National Forest for Spring, 2025. All hikes are open to the public free of charge. No reservations are required except where noted on schedule. TheseRead More

On the cooler, cloudy morning of Saturday, November 30th, 15 hikers gathered in the camping ground of Giant City State Park to be led on the last hike of the Fall 2024 hiking season, by Bob Mulcahy. We had several new hikers,Read More

As update on construction progress, the 2024 East Side reroute between Dutchman Lake Road and the Dam is now complete and has the trail markers have been installed as of December 10, 2024. The remaining work on the west side is expectedRead More

On Saturday November 23rd, 9 people from the Shawnee National Forest Friends and the River to River Trail Society, gathered at Garden of Gods to do a trash blast, that had been postponed from late September National Public Lands day, because ofRead More