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Coventry
Merrill S Whipple Conservation Area
Date visited: 7/8/2022
This was a fun hike. There is a nice spot near the river, as well as a cool area with very elaborate teepees. There is also the "Best Buddy Bridge", which is just perfect for Mandy and Lexi.
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Washington Secondary Bike Path
Date visited: 7/8/2022
See Also: Coventry, West Warwick, Warwick, Cranston
The Merrill S Whipple Conservation Area connects to this very nice bike path. On our first visit here, we arrived from the connecting trail, and walked about a half mile up to the bridge over the river and back.
Washington Secondary Bike Path
Date visited: 5/22/2023
We came back the following spring and walked a two mile stretch of the trail between the parking area off Route 117 near Brookside Lane and the equestrian lot off Pinehaven Road. There are actually two trails in this stretch. One paved bike path, and a stone dust trail that runs parallel to it that is for the horses. We walked on the stone dust path mostly at first, and returned on the bike path. Sometimes they are directly next to each other, and other times they are grade separated. In Coventry, there are different sections of the path. The Eastern Section is known as the Coventry Greenway, and the western section as the Trestle Trail. The border between the two sections is part of this stretch.
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Washington Secondary Bike Path
Date visited: 6/24/2023
On our third visit to this trail, we walked the section that connects with the sections from our two previous visits. It had rained quite a bit the previous couple of days, so I was looking for something dry, and this fit the bill. We took a detour to the Coventry Community Center, which is just off the trail. There was some sort of event of going on with food trucks and live music. This is actually the third time in a week i randomly picked a place that had some sort of event going on nearby!
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Washington Secondary Bike Path
Date visited: 7/13/2023
On our next visit, we closed the gap between eastern Coventry and where we left off in West Warwick. This section was about 2 1/4 miles (4 1/2 out and back), with a bit over a mile of it in Coventry. We also took a side trail for a short detour to Nathanael Greene Homestead.
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Washington Secondary Bike Path
Date visited: 3/23/2025
For some reason, I thought we had already walked the entire paved portion of this trail in Coventry, but I was obviously mistaken. It was a brisk afternoon, but a very sunny one, perfect for a 5 mile walk. We started at the equestrian parking lot, where we left off back in May of 2023, and headed west about 2 miles or so. This portion of trail is very rural, passing mostly through woods and along side a couple different lakes. We explored a few side trails on our way as well, before turning around and heading back.
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Washington Secondary Bike Path
Date visited: 4/8/2025
This is the western end of the paved section of trail in Coventry. There's a parking lot at the corner of Log Bridge Road and Railroad Street that holds eight cars (one handicap). We headed east along the trail for 2.5 miles to where we left off last time, near Beaudoin Conservation Area, and then turned around and headed back. No way to sugar coat it, this was a boring section of trail. It served it's purpose, however, as it provided a dry walk after a few days of rain. The trail continues to the west as the western section of the Trestle Trail. We've got one more trip left to connect where we left off on that trail.
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Trestle Trail
Date visited: 3/28/2025
This is a continuation of the stone dust surfaced Moosup Valley State Park Trail in Connecticut. We entered from Connecticut, where the brand new sign welcomes travelers to Rhode Island. We walked about two miles more before turning around and heading back. The western portion of the paved Washington Secondary Bike Path is also known as the Trestle Trail, but this unpaved section doesn't have any "Washington Secondary" signage. I'm pretty sure the stone dust path does eventually connect with the paved portion. Coventry is a very wide town, and the trail runs straight through from west to east, and we haven't made it that far yet. This is a pretty nice trail, running mostly through a pine forest. In fact, the trail passes through the southern edge of Carbuncle Pond Management Area, and the northern edge of Nicholas Farm Management Area. The clearing you see in one of the photos is evidently Riconn Airport. It's all grass, so I don't know where the planes actually land. There were deer running through the clearing in the distance. Back on the trail, there is a newish looking cement bridge over a river. Shortly after the bridge, the trail crosses Lewis Farm Road. After that, the trail narrows considerably, and a bit beyond that point the trail was flooded. I was trying to make it to Hopkins Hollow Road, but we had to turn around because the trail was too washed out to continue. Other than that, this is was a great, easy walk on a nice spring day.
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Trestle Trail
Date visited: 4/14/2025
We finished up the Trestle Trail on this trip. This is the western most section of the non-paved portion of the trail. This is the 2.5 mile section from the Railroad Street parking area to just past Hopkins Hollow Road, where we left off last time. We've now walked nearly the entire trail from it's start in Plainfield, CT as the Moosup Valley Trail, through Coventry as the Trestle Trail, and becoming the Washington Secondary Bike Path, all the way to Cranston. That's about 29 miles in one direction, and we've walked both directions, so that's a lot of trail we've covered! We have about a half mile left at the far northeast end of the trail in Cranston left to walk. We almost didn't get very far on this day. There was large tree that recently fell down blocking our path. I know it fell recently, within the past six days in fact. When we finished the paved section six days prior, we actually continued a bit on this part of the trail. I wanted to make sure it was passable before I came back, and we had made it past the spot with the fallen tree. Some bikers we met speculated that the locals may have cut the tree on purpose to deter motorbikes from using the trail. There are "No Trespassing" signs on both sides of the trail through this section, and I get the feeling that the locals don't want us there. We managed to get around the tree, and didn't have too many issues for the rest of the trail. The condition of this section reminds me of the Moosup Valley section in Connecticut, before they repaired it. A large section of the rail bed path is flooded, but the trail was routed around it. There was no other real issue until we got to where we left off a few weeks prior, where that part of the trail was also flooded. We managed to get around it and reached the exact spot where we turned around that time, so I made sure we walked the whole thing! Near the Hopkins Hollow Road crossing there is a goat pen. There were at least two goats inside the pen, and another wandering around loose outside the pen. He kept his distance though. This wasn't a bad walk, but I do hope that they someday fix up this section of the trail the way they did in Connecticut.
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Nathanael Greene Homestead
Date visited: 7/13/2023
We didn't visit much of this historic site. We took a side trail off the bike trail, in order to get a good view of the man-made waterfall. The area had recently received large amounts of rain and rivers were running high. The waterfall was extremely powerful!
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Jeffrey Hakanson Memorial Causeway
Date visited: 9/9/2025
This is the small park area along side Arnold Road as it crosses over Tiouge Lake. There's a sidewalk with benches and a war memorial, with nice views of the lake. To add more steps, we also headed over to Lakeside Drive, a small one way street that runs right along side the lake. Houses are on one side, with docks and picnic areas on the other. It's all private property so we just stayed on the street. We also walked about a half mile over to Briar Point Park as well, so we managed to get in a two mile walk here.
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Briar Point Park
Date visited: 9/9/2025
This is a town park with a beach area for Tiouge Lake. Swimming is offered in the summer time, but due to high bacteria levels in the water, swimming wasn't allowed during our visit. I kept Mandy & Lexi out of the water for that reason. It's surprising that dogs are allowed here, since most of these types of town swimming areas don't allow them at all, or at least not in the beach area. I didn't see any signs indicating they weren't allowed on the beach, just signs reminding people to clean up after their pets. Of course, we were here after Labor Day, so the rules might be different in the middle of the summer. Other than the lake, there is a picnic area, and a very short trail in the woods that really doesn't lead anywhere. This was part of our larger walk that started at the causeway.
