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Buttonwood Beach is a bucolic neighborhood on the eastern limb of the Nausauket neck, located in the West Bay area of Warwick, Rhode Island. Buttonwoods is delimited by Nausauket and Apponaug to the west, Buttonwoods Cove to the north, Greenwich (aka Cowesett) Bay to the south and Oakland Beach to the east.
Camping, beach activities East Beach State Beach: Charlestown: Washington: 400 acres 160 ha: 1967: Expanded by 250 acres in 2006; small, seasonal campground East Matunuck State Beach: South Kingstown: Washington: 144 acres 58 ha: 1956: Modern beach pavilion opened in 2012 Misquamicut State Beach: Westerly: Washington: 51 acres 21 ha: 1959
The point was named after William Field, a British colonist who settled in Providence, RI with an acreage and a house on what is now South Main Street. In the 19th century, Fields Point Farm, a 37-acre (150,000 m 2) park, developed as the major recreational area in the city until Roger Williams Park was created in 1871. [2]
Browning's Beach Historic District is a historic district west of the junction between Card Pond and Matunuck Beach Roads in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.It encompasses a cluster of four beach houses located on a barrier beach facing Long Island Sound south of Cards Pond, and accessed via a private gravel drive extending from Cards Pond Road.
East Matunuck State Beach is a public recreation area encompassing 144 acres (58 ha) on the shore of Block Island Sound in the town of South Kingstown, Rhode Island. [2] The state beach offers picnicking, ocean swimming, and beach activities. [3] It is open seasonally. [4] At the east end of the beach lies the small village of Jerusalem.
Atlantic Beach Park is a privately operated amusement center with 12 acres (49,000 m 2) of land and buildings within the Misquamicut section of beachfront. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] It lies south of Misquamicut State Beach [ 13 ] and north of Winnapaug Pond , a source of Rhode Island quahogs and bay scallops.
Hawk Island is an island in Delaware County, New York. It is located north of East Branch, on the East Branch Delaware River. The east end of the island is located ...
Brenton Point State Park is a public recreation area occupying 89 acres (36 ha) at the southwestern tip of Aquidneck Island in the city of Newport, Rhode Island. The state park offers wide vistas of the Atlantic Ocean where it meets Narragansett Bay. [4] The park lies adjacent to the Newport Country Club, part of Newport's Ocean Drive Historic ...