Date visited: 5/5/2023

This is actually the trail I was looking for last July, but couldn't find. There's another "River Walk" near Riverpoint Park, but that park does not allow dogs. The dogs are allowed at this "River Walk". I found it this time because the trail has been added to All-Trails since the last time I was here. There's a big "WWRW" sign visible from the road at the trail head, but Google and/or Waze never brought me to right street last time. Anyway, this is a short trail that goes down a gradual hill and eventually reaches the large dam on the Pawtuxet River. The last segment is on a wooden bridge, but just sort of dead ends. It looks like it continued at one point, but perhaps the bridge got damaged somehow and was never rebuilt.

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Date visited: 7/26/2025

This park used to be known as "Manchester Street Park". It looks like sometime since 2019 (the date of the Google Street View photos), the park was renamed and a small parking area and sign were built. There is a very nice dock that looks out to the Pawtuxet River. It's primary use is for fishing, and multiple people were fishing on it when we arrived. There is a short trail that leads that to an apartment complex. There is a number of places from the trail where the river can be accessed. Unfortunately, the whole area was littered with trash. I see this at fishing spots often! It was actually pretty disgusting in places. We added a few more steps by walking around the block, past a playground and the historical society. All in all, this isn't a great place to take dogs for a walk. It was one of our most disappointing adventures of the year.

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Date visited: 7/19/2026

This is a small park located at the site of the Station Night Club Fire in 2006. The park serves as a memorial for those lost that tragic evening. It's chilling to realize 100 people died at this spot. We were driving by, and stopped to check it out. The Dogs are allowed, but there isn't much of a place to take them for a walk here, but the well maintained memorial is beautiful, and worth visiting if you are in the area.

Date visited: 7/19/2026

This was mostly a walk along Main Street, near the intersection with Washington Street. There are some small shops and restaurants, but most of the venues were closed. There is a nice gazebo, called Arctic Gazebo, but we couldn't really access it because there was a family with a large German Shepherd that seemed to take it over for the afternoon. There are also some photos from the West Warwick Police Memorial, which is about a mile down the road.

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Date visited: 9/21/2026

This is a small park with athletic fields and a playground. Dogs are not allowed on the fields or the playgrounds, so there is not much else to do here. That was okay, because our main purpose of this visit was to park here and walk to the nearby waterfall. As a bonus, there was a house with an elaborate Halloween display nearby. We also walked around the surrounding neighborhood a bit after the waterfall because I needed to dry off (you can read all about why I was wet on the waterfall entry). We took a couple more photos around the neighborhood before heading back to the park, walking about three and a third miles total.

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Date visited: 9/21/2026

The falls here are said to be one of the best waterfalls in Rhode Island. Getting to them proved to be quite a challenge! We walked over to the path at the end of Shortway Drive from Natick Park. There are two separate segments of Shortway Drive, it looks like it used to be one road back in the day. The falls are off the segment that intersects with Alden Drive. At the start of the path you can barely see the falls behind the brush. The first issue is that you have to cross the stream to get there, and there is no obvious way across. I wound up carrying both dogs across while balancing on some rocks, but my feet still got wet. That wasn't even the hard part. There is a path that leads toward the falls, but once you get close, there are some thorny bushes you have to deal with. Even then, in order to see the falls, you kind of have to cross them, and walk over some slippery rocks that have water running over them. We actually were successful in this effort, and we got to the point where I could take some nice pictures of the waterfall. It was getting back that was the real issue. Basically, I slipped and fell, and landed right on my rear side in the water. My entire back side was soaked! Fortunately, the camera and phone did not break, and I didn't break either. While I'm a little sore, I didn't even get a scrape, so I guess I was fortunate. Mandy and Lexi had no issue crossing, but they probably can keep their balance better with four paws rather than two. This was quite an effort, but was actually kind of fun. I just wouldn't recommend anyone else do what we did! We were lucky, but it's very possible to get seriously hurt here!