auntie | August 23, 2014
5.1 miles, 2.4 mph; exeter, ri this trail starts, and ends, with the john b. hudson trail in arcadia. it goes from 165 to breakheart pond on the hudson trail, then takes the breakheart trail around to the north of breakheart pond, then comes back down the hicks trail (an old road) back to the […]
auntie | August 9, 2014
5 miles; exeter, ri if you recall a couple of weeks ago i wanted to go out and complete the hike i started a year ago which was interrupted by a broken ankle, but circumstances got in the way and i was unable to do it. well, better late than never, because i completed it […]
auntie | July 31, 2014
4.75 miles, exeter, ri i think this is my favorite route onto arcadia. you park next to the state garage on route 3, nooseneck hill road, and walk down a trail under route 95. don’t know why this tickles me so, but it does. and this is also my favorite loop: the white-blazed arcadia crossover trail […]
auntie | July 18, 2014
2.5 miles, exeter, ri this is a really sweet little trail. the preserve is a nature conservancy property, so it is very well blazed and maintained and has excellent signage. it’s not far from the audubon society’s fisherville brook preserve, and you could conceivably combine the two into one nice long hike (more on that later). […]
auntie | May 28, 2014
7.27 miles, 2 mph technically, this hike also includes a section of the john b. hudson trail, which we picked up at its intersection with the shelter trail. no one i know is a particular fan of that section of the shelter trail, which follows the east bank of breakheart brook as far as breakheart […]
auntie | May 23, 2014
5.73 miles; exeter, ri i had a couple of objectives for today’s hike. one was to see how easy it is to get from the uri master gardener trail that winds around the ri veteran’s cemetery to the trails on the queen’s river preserve. turns out, pretty easy. the other objective was to visit my […]
