Glocester

Ponaganset Covered Bridge Trail

Date visited: 6/15/2022

This trail is behind Ponaganset High School. It's a very wide two mile stone dust surfaced loop trail. The covered bridge is obviously the highlight. This made for a pleasant evening walk.

Steere Hill Farm Conservation Area

Date visited: 8/30/2022

This Glocester Land Trust property features a whole series of trails. The one we hiked is called the Steere Hill Trail. It is a wide, wooded trail that leads to a loop through a beautiful meadow. It was a two mile trip in total. It was a very pleasant hike on a slightly muggy evening.

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Sprague Farm Town Forest

Date visited: 10/15/2024

This is a Glocester Land Trust property. We followed the All-Trails route which features three separate loops. The trails are easy to follow, well marked, and well maintained. If you like walks in the woods, this is as good as any. Other than a historic cemetery and a few old foundations, there's nothing that unique or memorable about this property. That being said, it's a good place for a nice easy hike through the woods.

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George Washington Management Area

Date visited: 8/18/2025

It had been a long time since we last went on a 5+ mile hike through the woods. We've been on so many of them during the early days of our adventures that I find them kind of boring now. This one was pretty nice though. We often concentrate on areas of Rhode Island near the shoreline, but the state has massive amounts of forest areas too. This "management area" is expansive, with the main feature being a campground around Bowdish Lake. There's a beach area for the lake, but dogs aren't allowed on the main swimming beach. We hiked a portion of the "Walkabout Trail", but not the whole thing. The seven mile trail is a bit too much for Mandy, so we took a short cut that omits the western end of the loop, but we still went over five miles. Part of the trail also utilizes the "North South Trail", a route that runs up through the entire state. We were actually on a portion of the North South Trail in Richmond ten days prior to this. This hike also took us into Burrillville (more photos on that page), the town to the north, before looping back to the campground area in Glocester. The weather was perfect for this kind of hike, low 70's with partly cloud skies. I actually really enjoyed this hike in the woods!