Date visited: 10/15/2022

This was a fun and different trip! I found a dog friendly Corn Maze in Portsmouth, RI. Admission was $10 for adults, but the dogs were free! This year the maze runs from September 2nd through November 6th, on Fridays, weekends, and Labor and Columbus Days. We managed to get deep within the maze, and then I let Lexi find our way out which was fun! Lexi led us out via a totally different path! She's so smart, and has a great sense of direction! The farm also hosts a pumpkin patch, as well as hay rides for the kids. It was pretty busy, and the dogs impressed everyone with how well they posed for pictures.

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Date visited: 7/22/2022

This was a very cool short hike. We walked the "blue trail", which circles Melville Lower Pond. There was a connecting trail on my map that looked like it might provide access to the bay, but no dice! It went out to the train tracks and there was no way to get to the bay through the heavy brush. But, the rest of the trail was fun, especially the part with the stone platforms through the spillway. The dogs got on one of the platforms for the picture, but preferred just splashing through to actually cross the water.

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Date visited: 9/26/2022

This is a great little Aquidneck Land Trust Property that straddles the border of the Middletown and Portsmouth. There is a community garden and some farm buildings at the beginning, with a series of short trails behind them. We walked a 1+ mile loop trail around the property. The trail part of the property is a mixture of open fields and woods, similar to the Sakonnet Greenway, but on a much smaller scale. You can visit the Middletown page to see the pictures from the Middletown section. As we were returning to the car, two vans full of students from the University of Rhode Island were arriving for some kind of function. The students were enamored with Mandy and Lexi, and the dogs loved all of the attention! One of the students actually recognized the dogs from the photos I submit on the All-Trails app.

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Date visited: 11/5/2022

This is a very small beach in the Northeast corner of Portsmouth. You can basically see the entire beach in the first photo. We only stayed here for about 5 minutes. Be aware, there's a sign that reads "No Dogs Allowed on the Beach", and a couple feet away is another sign "As a pet owner you are responsible for your dog at all times. Please pick up after your dog". There are definitely mixed messages here!

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Date visited: 11/5/2022

Down the road just a bit from Teddy's Beach is this beach. I was not looking to go here, but saw it as I passed by so we stopped. It's not a well advertised beach. There is no signage at all, except for a sign about not leaving rubbish, and the 4 hour parking signs on the street. It would seem that dogs are allowed here year round, as there was no indication otherwise. I only figured out the name of the beach by zooming in on Google Maps, though I guess it also known as "Grimmells Beach". This isn't the greatest beach we've visited, but there was sand and water, and the dogs liked it! At one point, they both started to roll around in the sand at the same. They must have smelled something they wanted to roll around in! The beach narrows at one point near the cement wall, before opening back up at the south end of the beach. We walked the narrow strip, but the tide rose and we weren't going to make it back the same way without trudging through the water. Luckily there was a way back up to the sidewalk. We walked quite a bit here, on both the beach and the sidewalk that runs along side the beach. It was a nice way to spend an unusually warm November afternoon.

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Dates visited: 8/6/2023 & 9/20/2023

We hiked a portion of this trail in Middletown last year. Today we tackled the other end of the trail in Portsmouth. Like the Middletown section, this portion is a mixture of open fields and wooded areas. This trail starts at "The Glen", near Newport Polo. The trail passes a pen of horses, before proceeding through The Pennfield School property and Sandy Point Avenue. Once across Sandy Point Avenue the trail goes through a meadow. This is where we passed the field filled with cows. The cows stared at us, and Mandy barked at them. We continued across Bramans Lane, where the trail meets up with Little Creek Preserve. We visited the preserve, before turning around and heading back. This was a fun walk, especially with the horses and cows! We walked nearly five miles today, but there is one more section of the trail we have yet to visit.

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We returned and hiked the middle section of the trail that connects the two sections in Middletown and Portsmouth that we previously hiked. This entire section borders the Newport National Golf Club. Some sections of the trail are actually shared with the golf carts. Much of this section is not shaded, so this wouldn't be a great trail on a real hot day, but it was perfect for the day we visited. Parts of this section of the trail are in both towns. The pictures below are from the Portsmouth section. You can see the Middletown pictures on that page.

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Date visited: 8/6/2023

This is an Aquidneck Land Trust property that intersects the Sakonnet Greenway. We reached it via the Greenway and walked the short "Little Creek Preserve Loop". It's a mowed, grass surface trail through a meadow. It is home to many squirrels, bunnies, birds and butterflies.

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