The River to River Trail

The River-to-River Trail Society announces its ninth and final guided hike of the Spring, 2018 hiking season, on Saturday, May 5, in the Lusk Creek Wilderness in Pope County, Illinois. In order to comply with the rules of the U.S. Forest Service,Read More

I Wonder….Who Wasn’t ‘Out” today?? We had 26 hikers today, including a few new ones.that Bob Mulcahy led. We met at the Millstone Bluff parking lot, then loaded up into trucks, and moved over to just below Millstone lake…whereupon we walked acrossRead More

The River-to-River Trail Society announces its eighth guided hike of the Spring, 2018 hiking season, on Saturday, April 28, on Trail 49, between Millstone Lake and Jackson Falls in Pope County, Illinois. The hike is free and open to the public. MeetRead More

WOW!! YOU did it Again!!! (I Know..it isn’t b/c of me…😉….) But we had 29 hikers today. Big crowd for a West side hike. The Hardees’ parking lot was Packed until we left..Thank You to Don Monty & Anne Gaylord for leadingRead More

The River-to-River Trail Society announces its seventh guided hike of the Spring, 2018 hiking season, at the Godwin Trail and Bald Knob Wilderness, in Union County, on Saturday, April 21. The hike is free, and open to the public. Hikers should meetRead More

Rain quit, right exactly when we asked it to..13 showed up to hike..&we did., all nice & muddy, crossed Many streams, trails were even streams. Jim Todd led us today. Yeah, the ‘walk/slog” out…was tiring, but, all went well today in PantherRead More

The River-to-River Trail Society announces its sixth guided hike of the Spring, 2018 on Saturday, April 14, at Panther Den Wilderness in Union County. The hike is free and open to the public. Meet at 10:00 a.m. at Goreville City Park, 313 West Main Street (GorevilleRead More

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

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