The River to River Trail

We had a “Bakers Dozen” worth of hikers today at Cedar Lake in Jackson County. Very Well-led by Don Monty & Anne Gaylord. Anne identified lots of plants, and kept us all ‘on-time’. We had 3 new hikers..Welcome to them..Becky Marsh &Read More

2 groups of hikers left the Backpackers’ Parking lot Saturday Oct. 27th…1 group of 5, led by Fred Scott, headed South out to Indian Point. We saw Lots of fellow sight-seers…people from 2+ hours away. We ‘welcomed’ them to Southern Illinois, toldRead More

The River-to-River Trail Society announces its sixth guided hike of the Fall, 2018 hiking season, on Saturday, November 3, at 10:30 a.m. The hike will be to and from Wolf Den Hollow, on Trails 385 and 378, on the western side ofRead More

The River-to-River Trail Society announces its fourth guided hike of the fall, 2018 hiking season, on Saturday, October 27, at Garden of the Gods and Indian Point. Two hikes will be offered that day, one a shorter hike to Indian Point andRead More

We had 24 hikers today on the Benham Ridge hike, led by Bill Gilmour. We met at the Herod Post office, moved all vehicles to the new (huge) Forest Service parking lot on Benham Ridge Road, and condensed down to 5 vehiclesRead More

The River-to-River Trail Society announces its third guided hike of the Fall, 2018 hiking season, on Saturday, October 20, in the North Benham Ridge area of Pope County. The hike is free and open to the public. This hike will be alongRead More

Excellent New hike today, with Jim Todd as the leader. 21 total hikers, with 3 new..2 from Joppa. Started at the Vienna Ranger station, out to the Dutchman lake boat ramp area, then reduced down to 3 vehicles to the private-property “takeRead More

The River-to-River Trail Society announces its second guided hike of the Fall, 2018 hiking season, on Saturday, October 13 at Dutchman Lake. The hike is free and open to the public. This will be a hike of moderate difficulty, between five andRead More

We had 21 total hikers on today’s’ warm initial hike, of the Fall 2018 hiking season. Very Well led by Mart Watson. We even had 3 new hikers. Welcome to them. All others were ‘returning pros’….Down to the “Tin Whistle” then backRead More

The River-to-River Trail Society announces its first guided hike of the Fall, 2018 hiking season, on Saturday, October 6. The hike will be on trail 001T in Cove Hollow, sometimes called “the Promised Land” by rock climbers, because of the towering bluffsRead More