Rhode Island State Parks to accept reservations for 2021 Follow Us
Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Thursday, December 31, 2020
The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management on Monday will begin taking reservations for picnic areas, covered shelters and recreational fields at state parks for the 2021 season.
Reservations can be made on a first-come, first-served basis only by phone or in person at the state park.
Options include single picnic sites for $5, covered shelters that range from $75 to $100 per day, and recreational fields with varying prices. Payment is required within 10 days.
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Rhode Islanders invited to #WalkOff2020 at state parks
PROVIDENCE – The Department of Environmental Management announced in a press release that it is inviting residents to #WalkOff2020 and celebrate the New Year by getting outdoors with their immediate household members during the holiday weekend. Starting New Year’s Day, people are encouraged to visit any of Rhode Island s state parks with their household members – physically distanced from other groups and masked up – during regular park hours to explore and enjoy the outdoors.
First Day Hikes are part of a nationwide initiative led by America’s State Parks to encourage people to get outdoors. Last year nearly 85,000 people rang in the New Year, collectively hiking more than 176,366 miles throughout the country on the hikes.
Most of us were in need of magic this year as the coronavirus pandemic left little in our lives unchanged.
My son and I found that magic on a hillside in North Smithfield, home to the Rustic Tri View Drive In.
Jeremiah, 13, and I became regulars at the Route 146 drive-in, taking in movies on 18 of the 31 weekends the theater was open.
We started May 22, the Friday of Memorial Day weekend, which was the second weekend the drive-in showed movies after Gov. Gina M. Raimondo allowed it to reopen following the spring lockdown.
Until then, the only things we left the house for were occasional food shopping trips and often with Jeremiah s older brother walks through Lincoln Woods State Park, where the deer took over the landscape and the number of other people we saw could be counted on one hand.