The River to River Trail

Hi All: On Monday July 1, 2024, two Trail Society volunteers hiked the new rerouted section of the River to River Trail west of the Lirley Trailhead and installed the new R2R Trail markers. They also hiked out on the previous trailRead More

This past Monday, June 17th, over 2 dozen people gathered at Indian Kitchen Trailhead to assist with some trail maintenance work.  The rock was stockpiled and needed to be moved out to 3 spots that had been scouted, flagged and laid outRead More

On a rainy Saturday morning, June 1st, 2024, National Trails day, the River to River Trail Society gathered at Vienna, Illinois city park to have their annual meeting, as required by law, since we are registered with the State of Illinois asRead More

For our last hike of the Spring 2024 season, we had something new…a new hike leader, Cody Evans,  from Carterville.  We met at the Goreville City park, and  had a few new hikers, a father & son pair, and a dad with hisRead More

Carmen submitted to us a Youtube video that he created for his 2024 R2R through hike at the age of 71. Our review of this video found that a few video segments were out of sequence with the actual trail. Overall though,Read More

River to River Trail Guide Version 5.5_202404 has been uploaded to the Societies website. Updates included in this release include: This updated version of the guide to includes the following:– Locations of all picnic tables along the trail in a table andRead More

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