Sat, March 13th, was The River To River Trail Society’s 1st hike of the 2021 Spring hiking season, We gathered at Camp Ondessonk. After signing in, for both the Society and the Camp, we listened to leader Greg Santen talk about theRead More
The River-to-River Trail Society announces its second public hike of the Spring, 2021 hiking season, on Saturday, March 20, between Jackson Hole and Peter’s Cave waterfall, in Pope County. This hike is free and open to the public. Because State of Illinois hasRead More
The River-to-River Trail Society announces its first public hike of the Spring, 2021 hiking season, on Saturday, March 13, between Phantoms Canyon and Cedar Falls, in Pope County. This hike is free and open to the public. Because the size of the groupRead More
The River-to-River Trail Society announces that this spring it will once again offer a schedule of guided hikes in and near the Shawnee National Forest. All hikes are free and open to the public. Although the hikes vary in level of difficulty,Read More
We finished up the Fall 2020 hiking season in Great style. Cathy Jennings led 14 others out from Hayes Creek horse camp, thru various trails in the woods just west of the camp, across Mustang lane, and then into Jackson Hole. TheRead More
Bill Gilmour led 9 other hikers today on a 6 mile hike in the 1 Horse Gap trail area. We started at the Benham Hill/Ridge parking area. Today, we had only ‘seasoned’ hikers. Skies were cloudy most of the day. We workedRead More
The River-to-River Trail Society announces that it will offer a guided hike in the One Horse Gap Area on Saturday, November 14, 2020. The hike is free and open to the public, but due to Covid 19 restrictions the size of theRead More
What a Day to Hike!! Fred Scott & David Cooper led 2 different groups, 2 different ways, with about 19 total hikers, in the Garden of Gods wilderness. There were Literally Hundreds of vehicles in the various parking areas of the mainRead More
The River-to-River Trail Society announces its fifth scheduled hike of the Fall, 2020 hiking season, in Garden of the Gods Wilderness on Saturday, November 7. This hike will be free and open to the public. For public health reasons, and to complyRead More
Morning hike summary by Chris Drone Bill Gilmour led 12 of us on a hike in the Max Creek Vortex area. On Halloween, with a Blue Full Moon…and..we had a Whole Tree fall over less than 50 yards from us after lunch…WeRead More