Pick a day in Providence to enjoy both.
A quick recap of a glorious summer day.
Continue reading “2 Rhode Island 5-star attractions in 1 day: East Bay Bike Path and WaterFire”These bike overnights are all trail or mostly trails. Trips range from one night to closer to a week.
I started this list with 5 favorite DIY bike overnights using trails or mostly trails and (important for me) easily reached from New Jersey. Now it’s 2025, and my list has grown to 7.
More trails are coming, so biking within a day’s drive of New Jersey will only get better.
Continue reading “An updated list of 7 great bike-trail overnights within easy reach of New Jersey”Cycling the East Coast Greenway: Thumbs up for the Washington Secondary Trail — and take this short detour to the homestead of one of George Washington’s right-hand men.
This is Day 2 of my effort to almost finish biking the 3,000-mile East Coast Greenway from Maine to Florida. The plan had been to bike all of the missing stretch — from Providence to New York City — with friends over the better part of a week in August.
Then COVID. Now the plan is for just two of us to ride just part of it and use a campsite as a base. This day’s goal: Providence, Rhode Island.
Continue reading “Rhode Island’s 5-star Washington Secondary Trail: Car-free from near Connecticut to the outskirts of Providence”Ride your bike by the water from Providence toward Bristol on this Rhode Island multi-use trail.
This trail runs 15 miles starting in Providence, Rhode Island, along the Narragansett Bay south to Bristol. The East Bay Trail connects to the main East Coast Greenway route, and we rode 10 miles of it while in Providence in mid-November. It’s an old railway line, so it’s flat. Yes, there’s wind to offset that. You’re always near the water, but it also runs past a supermarket. How cool is that — being able to get groceries via the trail? Continue reading “Rhode Island’s beautiful East Bay Trail!”
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