2018 04-07
What Snow??…Where?? When??? David Cooper led a Great hike today…a total of 20 met at the Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge office..and we moved 8 miles down the road to the Turkey Trail & Rocky Bluff Trail … Skies cleared, and, onceRead More
2018 03-31
The River-to-River Trail Society announces its fifth guided hike of the spring, 2018 hiking season, on Saturday, April 7, on the Rocky Bluff and Wild Turkey trails at Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge. Meet at the Crab Orchard NWR Visitors’ Center at 8588Read More
On Saturday’s hike from Giant City SP to the ghost town of Progress on Rocky Comfort Road we had 23 hikers. At least 3-4 of the hikers to were new to the R2R Trail Society hikes. Hike leader Steve Gariepy did anRead More
2018 03-26
The River-to-River Trail Society announces its fourth guided hike of the spring, 2018 hiking season, on Saturday, March 31. The hike is free and open to the public, and will run between Giant City State Park and Rocky Comfort Road. Meet atRead More
2018 03-24
After last weeks huge crowd on a sunny day, today’s hike in the Cedar Creek area started out with 6 hikers and ended with 5 after Eric Johnson only did half of it. It stopped raining about 10 minutes before we startedRead More
2018 03-19
The River-to-River Trail Society announces its third guided hike of the spring, 2018 season, on Saturday, March 24, along Cedar Creek in Johnson County, Illinois. Meet at 10:00 a.m. at Tunnel Hill-New Simpson School on Route 45, between Ozark and Vienna, Illinois.Read More
2018 03-18
What.A.Crowd!!! Wowzer!!! 38 hikers today, on a Warm humid day. They just kept rollin’ in to go with us..Bill Gilmour did a Heckuva job as hike leader. ..saw some Great Big Mounds…of sandstone..Had some people returning, some new hikers…Pickups Were Loaded…I amRead More
2018 03-17
There will be a trail work day Saturday, March 17 at the Hitching Post trail head just a mile northeast of Herod. It will start at 9am, but you can show up later. Mule teams will be hauling gravel into the wildernessRead More
At our spring summit meeting with the Shawnee National Forest and other groups it was reported that there is a significant trail wash out / failure about 1.2 miles west of the Lirley Cemetery Trail head on map 22. Please plan accordinglyRead More
The River-to-River Trail Society announces its second guided hike of the spring, 2018 hiking season, on Saturday, March 17, at Pine Hollow in Pope County, Illinois. The hike is free and open to the public. Meet at 10:00 a.m. at Parking LotRead More