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The water’s really not THAT cold, I mumbled last Jan. 1, while running with a lemming-like mob toward frigid Palmer Cove in Noank. I’ve been telling myself the same lie every New Year’s Day, and every...

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During late-summer droughts, sections of the Wood River slow to a trickle, barely flowing through one of Rhode Island’s most resplendent natural areas, Stepstone Falls. But after last week’s powerful...

As friends and I hiked on a hilly path at Arcadia Management Area last week, late-afternoon sunlight that slanted through evergreens bathed the forest in iridescent shades of emerald. Gazing at verdan...

A large, color-coded trail map posted at the entrance to the 300-acre Wolf Hill Forest Preserve in Smithfield, R.I., seemed like a helpful guide, so

Pack a water bottle and hit the trails at these eight favorite spots for hiking in Rhode Island.

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Walking RI: Over the rivers and through the woods on Mount Tom Trail By John Kostrzewa EXETER — The Wood River winds gently for miles through a dense forest in the Arcadia Management Area in South County. It’s hard to believe that 70 years ago a wildfire burned and scarred 8,000 acres of timberland around the river. But a forward-thinking reforestation project planted 690,000 seedlings that have grown into thick stands of pine, beech and oak and regenerated one of the finest hiking and recr...