The River to River Trail

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

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

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

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

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

We had 26 hikers on todays’ initial Spring ’18 hike. I had been in the area, but, Not down that particular road…(took it ‘out” right by Double M Campground.. Saw some interesting stuff, crossed a few streams, met some horse riders, WeRead More