The River to River Trail

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

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