The River to River Trail

On Friday morning February 23, 2024, Trail Society President Bill Gilmour had a 10 minute interview on the WJPF Radio station with host Tom Miller. Link to WJPF post

The River-to-River Trail Society announces its 1st public hike of the 2024 spring hiking season on Mar. 2nd. Hiking: Little Cedar and Crevice Falls (Pope County). This hike is free and open to the public. This will be a loop hike ofRead More

The River-to River Trail Society announces its schedule of free guided hikes in and about the Shawnee National Forest for Spring, 2024. All hikes are open to the public free of charge. No reservations are required except where noted on schedule. TheseRead More

On February 7, 2024 minimum of another 13 trees were cleared from the R2R Trail between Little Cedar Lake Spillway and Waterworks road near Alto Pass. Society members Sam Morales, Cathy Jennings and Bill Gilmour met and hiked 4.5 miles from LandrethRead More

On Feb 1, 2024, two Trail society board members got together and cut approximately 35 trees that had fallen across the Max Creek section of the River to RIver Trail. Most trees were only 4-6 inches in diameter, however we did encounterRead More

We have just been notified by the Shawnee National Forest Service that the timber harvest between Bassett Road and Cadiz Road has been completed 100%. As a result, the Forest Service has removed the requirement to detour along Bassett and Karbers RidgeRead More

This post is a follow-up to our October 4, 2023 post on the start of installing picnic tables along the River to River Trail. Since that post, the Society has completed the installation of six more tables in various spots along theRead More

On Saturday, Dec. 16th, we had our last hike of the Fall 2023 hiking season. 20 hikers met the hike leader, Steve Melville, at Rim Rock parking lot and left out, with the possibility of sprinkles. Steve and 3 others had “spotted’ pickupsRead More

On Saturday, November 25th, 14 hikers gathered at the former Shawnee Mart in Eddyville, Illinois, to be led on a hike by Cathy Jennings. There were 2 new hikers with us….1 all the way from Nashville, TN. (He came to the hikeRead More

I just posted a short trail story written by Jim Schroeder of Evansville, IN. He shares a little about his family adventure of section hiking the entire R2R trail over a period of four years from 2019 to 2023. Check it out.Read More