Sat. November 5th, Marcus Owens led 11 other hikers, including 1 new hiker from the St. Louis area, from the Tecumseh statue at Glen. O. Jones lake, to the Stoneface parking lot. We began by ‘spotting” 3 vehicles at the Stoneface parkingRead More
Sat Oct. 29th, members of The River to River Trail Society met at the Goreville City Park, Bill Gilmour, our leader for the day, led 11 other hikers, including a new hiker from Paducah, into various areas South of Goreville, including parts ofRead More
Saturday Sat. Oct. 22nd, Chris Drone led 18 other hikers from Sand Cave back to Hunting Branch. We had gathered at the Hunting Branch parking area, then carpooled over to Sand Cave. Sand Cave Is The Largest cave from sandstone in theRead More
Sat. Oct. 15th, 2022, Sam Morales led 17 other hikers from the Benham Ridge Trailhead. We condensed down into 4 vehicles and moved about 2 ‘very dusty’ miles on into the forest. On the hike, we went by such areas as theRead More
On. Sat. Oct. 8th, hikers met at the Knights of the Golden Circle parking lot. Sam Morales, the leader, took 15 other hikers with him We only had 1 new hiker, who was from Marion, IL. We went to various formations, includingRead More
What a Wonderful day to start the Fall hiking season. Today on our 1st hike of the Fall 2022 hiking season, we met at the Heron Pond parking lot. Shawn Gossman led 16 other hikers, including several new hikers and 1 from Indiana,Read More
For the last official River to River Trail Society hike of the Spring 2022 hiking season, we met at the old Shawnee Mart parking lot on IL. Rt. 145 at Eddyville. Marcus Owens & Steve Mitchell were our leaders for the day.Read More
Sat. April 30th, we met at the visitors’ center at Giant City State Park. Fred Scott led 18 other hikers, in and around various areas of the park. It was a bit overcast, but Temps were almost perfect We carpooled from theRead More
Hike of Sat. April 23,2022. This IS a bit late, sorry folks, I kept forgetting. We gathered at the Vienna, IL. U.S. Forest Service office and then moved out to Bulge Hole Ecological Area, which is, “by the crow”, almost straight NorthRead More
Susan & Kerry Durfee led 22 other hikers into the North part of the Burden Falls Wilderness area today. It Was a perfect day to hike, with temps great for hiking and skies of blue. We again had several new hikers andRead More