AAA gives you much more than roadside. Their pseudo-DMV service alone is worth it, but you can get discounts on all sorts of other shit through them too.

They don't have a negative reputation, just a very bland brand. Lack of imaginative leadership, limited funding, and being stuck in URIs shadow adds to the challenges.

Awesome, thank you for the detail; that's just what I need!

>Hope this helps!

Of course, thank you!

>A little muddy and icy right now in a few areas - and some frozen dirtbike/atv ruts - but nothing a light gravel tire can't handle.

Oh nice, sounds like a blast

> I like to ride them as long as I don't see any horses. Bikes are supposed to yield to horses and I try not to piss anyone off.

Good to know, thank you! I'll make sure to brush up on my etiquette rules before going.

>. (If you want to just touch the other state border to say you crossed the state by bike, you could hop off the East Bay bike path in Warren and head towards MA from there.)

Good call, that sounds like a good plan.

Thank you for all the help!

>If you're into unpaved dirt, I find the Airline Trail in CT to be a great challenge.

Oh yeah! That starts just around the corner from where another bikey friend of mine lives.

>You may want to also try the Blackstone River Bikeway

For sure! The cross-state-to-Bristol route is currently most exciting to me, but Blackstone is a close second for sure.

Have you seen this? https://bikenewportri.org/risd-crossing-the-pell/?highlight=bridge

It's still completely hypothetical, but adding pedestrian and bike access across the Pell Bridge would be awesome.

Depends on the degree. For a lot of jobs a degree is a degree and it doesn’t matter where it comes from.

Gotcha, thank you! Think I'll sit out that section for now (at least as a cross-state fun ride) and support Bike Newport with their efforts to improve things. If they/we can get a strip down the whole of Aquidneck like there is between the Coddington and Newport Storm breweries, that would be sweet.

I heard there was a new Taco Bell opening in the Newport creamery plaza on post road , where blockbuster used to be (20 years ago ).

1999 pub date though? I know things have changed since then!

>the rest is in pretty rough shape

Hah, perfect. That actually makes it sound better to me.

My "gravel bike" is a hardtail xc mtb with gravel combo tires, so should be imminently doable.

Thanks for the route link, I'll invest some more time to look though it. Thanks!

I wish there were dedicated pedestrian lanes like on the sakonnet river bridge, I would totally run across the Mt Hope bridge if so.

Haha was going to write this too...

We are wondering same thing.. Watching the SB and heard these 3 loud boom explosions..third one seemed the loudest. No idea what that was..no emergency vehicles around..really odd.

Chillin

providence is ghetto

We have to assume that it was exploding CCP surveillance balloons......

u/monkiesandtool Thank you! Want to mention that there is a detour that you can use to pass the area with the standing water. It runs right next to the trail, just above it. If you're riding west to east, the detour will be on the right side.

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I only found out recently about it, but last fall I actually made it up that way via Canal Street just by following signs but had now idea that connected at the time. From the end, it's a left out onto Hamlet >Court Street> High Street right onto Canal Street cross the Mass border and it should spit you out here: https://goo.gl/maps/QU1ipNoADtbRM1s68

although it does split off around 146 so you have to get creative crossing there, but once you do it connects over to the airline. I will warn that northern section is rough

Airline is awesome but I haven’t figured out how to loop it in from providence yet. I always get lost in Woonsocket 🤷🏻‍♂️

Did this once and would not recommend

To compliment blahberry's comments
1a, there is a section between Lois Farm and Hopkins Hollow that is nearly impassable (the row is nearly reclaimed by nature, with a decent amount of standing water). West of Lois Farm is a (recently) improved dirt ROW out to the state line, with points east of Log Bridge fully paved to (Nearly) Cranston St in Cranston.

On the CT side, there is old asphalt that runs for some distance from 14A (though It does discontine by the time it crosses RT14 in Sterling, Nonetheless the original ROW has been built over in Mossup (where it crosses over Main St and it just a dirt path along Plainfield Rd under I-395 at MilePost 31.4. West of it (up to the current Providence and Worcester Yard). It's Impassable

You beat me! That is one fine Superb Owl!

I have one of those in my yard. Maybe it's him.