On Wed. May 24th, 3 members of the River to River Trail Society, along with 4 U.S. Forest Service personnel and over 10 people from the Southern Illinois Backcountry Horsemen, gathered at Franks’ tract to cooperate to do some trail maintenance andRead More
The River to River Trail Society would like to extend a sincere THANK YOU to Karl Van Scyoc and his 4-5 buddies that came to Southern Illinois to hike the R2R trail in March 2023 from the Houston, TX area. Karl isRead More
Our partners the Back Country Horseman are looking for volunteers to help pack gravel into trails in the Lusk creek area. Volunteers are needed to fill buckets with gravel, dump them into the pack teams and then to level the gravel whereRead More
On February 18, 2023 the River to River Trail Society joined forces with the Illinois Branch of the Back Country Horseman to repair the River to River Trail between Dutchman Lake and Twinz Lane. This section of trail was originally built throughRead More
The Trail Society is working together with the Back Country Horseman to try and clear the River to River Trail between Dutchman Lake and Twinz Lane. Some Society members hiked the trail late last year and confirmed that over 30 pines haveRead More
Today, Fri. Oct. 7th, 3 River to River Trail Society members (Jim Todd, Sam Morales & Chris Drone) along with 3 people, including Pat Jones, from Friends of the Shawnee, worked a Trash Blast just North of the Grantsburg swamp. This areaRead More
The Society would like to give a Big Shout Out and Thank You to the 6 or 7 folks that showed up this morning and helped us clean up the Garden of the Gods Recreation Area of the Shawnee National Forest. The team pickedRead More
Hi all, we hope everyone has had a safe and enjoyable summer considering everything going on. We in the Trail Society have completed planning and published our fall hiking schedule which will start on October 1, 2022. In an effort to giveRead More
On May 1, 2022 the River to River Trail Society sponsored a trash blast along 2.5 miles of the River to River trail from Elizabethtown to a 1/2 mile north of Lake Tecumsah. The volunteer crew shown in the above photos fromRead More
The Trail Society has scheduled a trash blast work day for Sunday May 1st, 2022 (May 15th is the rain out day). The plan is to clean along the first 2 miles of the River to River Trail between Watson Lane andRead More