Turner Reservoir Loop

| November 15, 2017

Turner Reservoir Loop

3 miles; East Providence, RI and Seekonk, MA The James V. Turner Reservoir in East Providence, Rhode Island, and Seekonk, Massachusetts, was constructed with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. Turner Reservoir was created in 1935 with the building of the Turner Dam, and the City of East Providence used it for […]

Ten Mile River Walk

| March 20, 2016

Ten Mile River Walk

9.5 miles; Pawtucket and East Providence, RI, and Seekonk, MA So after hiking up Lantern Hill, I raced north to join the PCHC bunch on a ten-mile(ish) hike along the Ten Mile River Greenway and Central Pond in East Providence, Pawtucket, and Seekonk to get in my first real  hike of the spring. This was a car spot hike, […]

Turner Reservoir

| September 23, 2014

Turner Reservoir

3.27 miles; east providence, ri and seekonk, ma um, long time no post! i’ve been working full time on a temporary basis, and i just haven’t had the extra bandwidth to write blog posts. i don’t know how other people manage to do it. but the temporary assignment is over now, and i have some […]

Hunts Mill

| September 16, 2014

1.7 miles, east providence, ri this was a lovely little after-work hike with the folks from the providence county hiking club. this is an interesting property with its history and the trails that hug the shore of the 10-mile river. i’m just gonna be really lazy here and outsource the bulk of the information about […]