The River to River Trail

River-to-River Trail Society Announces Fall, 2018 Hiking Schedule Press contact: Gillum Ferguson, Secretary, (630) 470-7692 The River-to-River Trail Society announces its schedule of free guided hikes in and about the Shawnee National Forest for Fall, 2018. All hikes are open to theRead More

The STC will be packing gravel for the Forest Service this Saturday at 9 am. We will park at the Indian kitchen trail head off the Eddyville black top. We are working on the new 405 trail. Megan will be there notRead More

For all those that are interested, 2 activities will be ongoing on that day which just happens to be National Public Lands Day.   The first will be the installation of the final River to River Trail sign in front of BackRead More

For all those interested in the R2R trail maps, the new official map 5 in the Garden of the Gods area has been uploaded to the Trail Societies website and is now available for download.  The geo-referenced PDF file has also beenRead More

For anybody looking for opportunities to volunteer with in the Shawnee National Forest, The Shawnee Trail Conservancy, The Forest Service and the Society are doing some rock hauling for the River to River Trail in Garden of the Gods Wilderness.  The detailsRead More

For those that may be interested, the Shawnee Trail Conservancy (STC) will be packing gravel to work on areas on the R2R in the Garden of the Gods wilderness.  This will be happening on Saturday June 23, 2018 starting 9:00 am IRead More

Hi All:   Just wanted to let all that are interested in the River to River Trail, I recently received from the Forest Service the updated maps for the historic Battery Rock Leg trail.  These 5 maps take off from map 3,Read More

33 people gathered on Sat. June 2nd, 2018 at the Harrisburg, IL. city park for the River to River Trail Societys’ Annual Meeting/National Trails Day picnic. A short business meeting was conducted, with Election of Officers for 2018-19 1st on the agenda,Read More

All:   Details on the subject event have been uploaded to the Society web site.  Details can be found in the  PDF file linked on the Society Information page.  The link is near the bottom.   http://www.rivertorivertrail.net/home/society-information/

For all that may be interested in using the new 2017 River to River Trail maps on your smart phone, you can now download all 28 maps from the Avenza Map Store for free.  Just open up the Avenza App on yourRead More