A 58-foot bright-blue termite perched atop an exterminator's building beside I-95 in Providence — the unofficial mascot greeting everyone driving through the capital.
Road trips · Rhode Island
Rhode Island road trips & hidden gems.
The stops worth changing a travel day for in Rhode Island — crowd-voted gems, events worth traveling for, and the public golf you can actually book. Curated by Roamward, the scenic road-trip planner.
Happening in Rhode Island
Boston Marathon 2027
Barely two dozen marquee events hit the whole country in a year — and Rhode Island has one this April. Roamward builds the trip around it: the scenic route in, the detours worth a slack day, and when rooms sell out.
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Hidden gems
What locals say you shouldn’t miss.
Crowd-nominated in the Gem Hunt. Add yours and vote the finalists into the app.
A rambling 1968 collection of rustic shops, overgrown gardens, and resident emus tucked into the countryside of Charlestown along Route 1A.
The country's oldest topiary garden, with sculpted hedge elephants, bears, and birds overlooking Narragansett Bay in Portsmouth — a whimsical, photogenic stroll.
Rhode Island's only covered bridge on a public road, a red wooden span over a quiet creek in rural Foster in the state's wooded northwest corner.
A bayside estate with 33 acres of gardens, a giant sequoia, and sweeping water views in Bristol — especially lovely when the spring daffodils bloom.
The site of the third-oldest lighthouse in North America, perched on the wave-battered southern tip of Jamestown's Conanicut Island, with four overlooks and a small seasonal museum over the bay.
Worth traveling for
Events that put Rhode Island on the calendar.
Plan the Rhode Island trip
Get the scenic route, the stops, and the timing.
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