Date visited: 7/30/2022

This place is 1000 times nicer than the first place we visited in Cranston. This is a very small state park. It's just the pond and the area around the pond. There is a paved trail that goes around a third of the pond. The rest of the loop follows neighborhood streets, or you can walk around the grassy area around the pond in spots. The whole loop is just under a mile, and is quite nice.

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Date visited: 8/25/2022

This is a unique trail! We hiked the Rock Island trail, or at least most of it. Most of the trail is actually a water jetty that you have to access via a causeway. The south side has an actual small island that you can get to, but it was crowded with people fishing, so we walked the north side. The walk wasn't that difficult, but there were a few tricky places. The jetty curves to the west, and the rocks are uneven at the point of the curve. It was easier for the dogs to navigate than it was for me. Getting up to the jetty from the causeway is also a bit tricky, but I'm happy to report that we made it with no issues! The jetty is on the Warwick and Cranston town line, with the north end of the jetty in Cranston. The pictures below are from the Cranston portion, and the Warwick pictures are here.

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Dates visited: 7/24/2022, 10/8/2023 & 12/2/2023

See Also: Coventry, West Warwick, Warwick, Cranston

Rhode Island has it's fair share of paved bike paths. We've walked parts of most of them, including a stretch of this trail in Coventry and West Warwick. Those sections are nicer than this one. When you drive into Rhode Island from neighboring states you are greeted with a "Discover Beautiful Rhode Island" sign. They aren't talking about this place. We walked about a half mile stretch of trail (a mile total out and back) from Garfield Avenue to the Gansett Avenue bridge. The trail was laced with graffiti and garbage. It was certainly not the nicest stretch of bike trail we've ever walked. Hopefully I can return to Cranston at a later date and find some place nicer to visit.

We walked from the Warwick and West Warwick town line up to Sherman Avenue. This section is only slightly better than the first section we walked. There is still a lot of trash, including an old mattress that was dumped at one spot. There's a side trail called Woodland Trail that has a very elaborate sign. Unfortunately, the side trail is less than a tenth of a mile and goes out Wilbur Avenue, where there is another elaborate sign. There was trash and broken glass on this trail as well. This is certainly not the nicest trail in Rhode Island.

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For this trip, we started near the Gansett Avenue Bridge, and headed north three miles to Sherman Avenue, and back. We basically went from where we left off on our first trip back in July of 2022, to where we left of on our last trip here in October of 2023. I'm not going to sugar coat it....this is not a great section of bike trail. There was trash everywhere. It got better the further north we went, but not a lot better. This section runs through a rural area, behind backyards and businesses on either side. It was a damp and dreary day, but mild for this time of year. Temps were in the mid-50's. I'm actually glad I didn't waste a sunny day on this trail. Since I am trying to complete this entire bike path, we had to walk it some time! On a positive note, there was one section that passes under RI-5 (Oaklawn Avenue), where there was still some very nice foliage. That was surprising to me, since it's December. I can't ever recall seeing foliage like this so late in the season. It was just around the area under the bridge. It was the highlight of the walk. There was also a very elaborate sign, that looked like one of the homeowners made. It was odd that the points of interest on the signs were Albany Medical Center, and New London, New Hampshire. That just seems so random!

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Date visited: 10/8/2022

We hiked the route called "Pawtuxet River Trail" in the All-Trails app. About 2/3 of the route is a wooded trail that is completely flat. The other third is on a sidewalk through Pawtuxet Village, a section of town in both Cranston and Warwick. The first part of the trail on the Cranston side of the river isn't too bad. We started at the trail head behind "Rhodes on the Pawtuxet". It reaches Warwick Avenue and a sign reads that the trail continues across the bridge. This is where it gets hairy. We are now on the Warwick side and the trail is completely unmarked. The trail actually picks up behind the Shaws grocery store. This part of the trail reminds me of the Hockanum River Trails in Connecticut. Like those trails, it goes behind construction yards and businesses, feeling pretty shady in the process. Also like the Hockanum trails, there are plenty of wooden bridges that cross streams and muddy spots. The trail is slightly overgrown here, but still very passable. The problem is as the route reaches the end of the "trail" portion at Post Road, there is a "No Tresspassing" and "Private Property" sign on the section of trail we just completed! There was no such sign where we started the trail behind Shaws, so it's all pretty confusing. At this point, to complete the loop, the route follows Post Road on sidewalks through the historic Pawtuxet Village, a bridge over the Pawtuxet river, and back into Cranston, and then down Rhodes Place until we reach the start of the loop again. The pictures below are from the Cranston section, the pictures from the Warwick section are here.

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Date visited: 10/8/2023

This is a small park we visited while on the Washington Secondary Bike Trail. There are two little league fields here but not much else.

Date visited: 10/8/2023

Del's Frozen Lemonade has been a constant on our many trips to Rhode Island over the past two years. We've stopped at many stands and stores after our adventures for a refreshing drink (just for me, not the dogs!) This is actually the location of the corporate headquaters. We did stop here for a lemonade, but I had some time to kill while waiting for a take out order at Apsara. So we took some pictures while we were waiting. There's also a very tiny green with a historical cemetery called "Oak Hill Terrace". We took a photo here as well.