Outdoors · Newport

Newport, RI parks, trails & bike paths

About 7.3% of Newport is conserved land, roughly 526 acres. There are about 16 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Miantonomi Memorial Park (1.6 mi) and Fort Adams State Park (1.2 mi).

Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Newport, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.

At a glance

Newport outdoors

Conserved land
7.3%
526 of 7,234 acres
Trails
16 mi
1.4 mi per sq mi · 6 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
17
21 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
13.9 mi
2.8 mi lanes · 2.8 mi off-road paths

Conserved land is a share of the whole town area. Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.

Map

Conserved land, trails & bike routes

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Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Miantonomi Memorial Park

Park
42 acres1.6 mi of trail
Miantonomi Loop
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Fort Adams State Park

Park
147 acres1.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
3

King Park

Park
6 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4

Rovensky Park

Park
4 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5

Touro Park

Park
2 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 17 parks & preserves
Who protects the land

526 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Other state land
163 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
162 ac
State natural resources
94 ac
Town or city
79 ac
Other or Unknown Federal Land
55 ac
Joint
48 ac
State conservation
21 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 198 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 37 of 77 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes2.8 mi
  • Off-road bike paths2.8 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes8.4 mi

Courts & fields

  • Tennis74
  • Basketball16
  • Baseball12
  • Soccer4
  • Pickleball4
  • Football2
  • Lacrosse2

Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.

Next door

Newport and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Newport7.3%16.3 mi17
Jamestown8.5%11.2 mi7
Middletown16.8%20.2 mi9
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Newport's trails yet. Muddy, icy, a bridge out, where to park: a quick post helps the next person.

Sources: trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US). Measured against the Census town boundary.

How we measure"Trails" are OpenStreetMap paths, bridleways, public tracks and unpaved footways, plus footways inside a park or preserve or on a named trail route. Sidewalks are left out. Areas are counted on a 20-meter grid, so overlapping parcels count once. "Conserved" includes conservation easements, which protect land from development but are usually private property. Trailheads are the nearest marked trailhead, public parking lot or information board within about 150 meters of a preserve. Dog rules come from OpenStreetMap when someone has tagged them; otherwise we show what's typical for the land manager, or say the rules aren't recorded.

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