The River to River Trail

The River to River Trail Society announces its 8th public hike of the 2026 Spring hiking season on April 25th.  Hiking: Lusk Creek, Salt Peter Cave, Natural Bridge, Secret Canyon (Pope County). This hike is free and open to the public. ThisRead More

The sun broke thru in the South side of the Crab Orchard National Wildlife refuge just in perfect timing Saturday, April 11th, for Cathy Jennings to lead 18 hikers on about a 4 mile hike on the Wild Turkey Trail. Birds wereRead More

The River to River Trail Society announces its 7th public hike of the 2026 Spring hiking season on April 18th. Hiking: Dixon Springs. (Pope County). This hike is free and open to the public. This will be a moderately difficult hike approximatelyRead More

The River to River Trail Society announces its 6th public hike of the 2026 Spring hiking season on April 11th  Hiking: Wild Turkey Trail (Williamson County). This hike is free and open to the public. It will have a proliferation of wildflowersRead More

It was a bright, clear, sunny, with a bit of wind, Saturday morning that 23 hikers gathered at the parking lot of New Simpson-Tunnel Hill school to be led by Sam Morales. We had several new to the Society hikers. We loadedRead More

The River to River Trail Society announces it 5th public hike of the 2026 Spring hiking season on April 4th.  Hiking: Crest Trail, (Saline County). This hike is free and open to the public. This will be a moderate, hike approximately 6.5Read More

The River to River Trail is used by the cross country American Discovery Trail in southern Illinois along their southern route. The American Discovery Trail Societies big project for 2026 is to run a cross country relay event along their entire trail.Read More

On a Well Above normal temperature Saturday morning, Melanie Kasson led a total of 20 other hikers on about a 7 mile hike in and around Ferne Clyffe state park.  3 new hikers joined  us today. We met at the main parking area forRead More

The River to River Trail Society announces its 4th public hike of the 2026 Spring hiking season on March 28th.  Hiking: Easter Basket Arch, (Johnson County). This hike is free and open to the public. This will be a moderate, loop hikeRead More

On Saturday, March 14th, 17 hikers, including 1-2 newbies, and a couple of “long-missing” hikers, gathered at the East Trigg trailhead parking lot, to be led by Marcus Owens. We headed East, encountering some good sized muddy areas, due to recent, but neededRead More