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Coventry
Merrill S Whipple Conservation Area
Date visited: 7/8/2022
This was a fun hike. There is a nice spot near the river, as well as a cool area with very elaborate teepees. There is also the "Best Buddy Bridge", which is just perfect for Mandy and Lexi.
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Washington Secondary Bike Path
Dates visited: 7/8/2022, 5/22/2023, 6/24/2023 & 7/13/2023
See Also: Coventry, West Warwick, Warwick, Cranston
The Merrill S Whipple Conservation Area connects to this very nice bike path. On our first visit here, we arrived from the connecting trail, and walked about a half mile up to the bridge over the river and back.
We came back the following spring and walked a two mile stretch of the trail between the parking area off Route 117 near Brookside Lane and the equestrian lot off Pinehaven Road. There are actually two trails in this stretch. One paved bike path, and a stone dust trail that runs parallel to it that is for the horses. We walked on the stone dust path mostly at first, and returned on the bike path. Sometimes they are directly next to each other, and other times they are grade separated. In Coventry, there are different sections of the path. The Eastern Section is known as the Coventry Greenway, and the western section as the Trestle Trail. The border between the two sections is part of this stretch.
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On our thrid visit to this trail, we walked the section that connects with the sections from our two previous visits. It had rained quite a bit the previous couple of days, so I was looking for something dry, and this fit the bill. We took a detour to the Coventry Community Center, which is just off the trail. There was some sort of event of going on with food trucks and live music. This is actually the third time in a week i randomly picked a place that had some sort of event going on nearby!
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On our next visit, we closed the gap between eastern Coventry and where we left off in West Warwick. This section was about 2 1/4 miles (4 1/2 out and back), with a bit over a mile of it in Coventry. We also took a side trail for a short detour to Nathanael Greene Homestead.
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Nathanael Greene Homestead
Date visited: 7/13/2023
We didn't visit much of this historic site. We took a side trail off the bike trail, in order to get a good view of the man-made waterfall. The area had recently received large amounts of rain and rivers were running high. The waterfall was extremely powerful!
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