Besides offering peaceful vistas of water, woods and a red barn, the trail crosses the final resting places of generations of farming families.

George E. Matteson spent decades roaming the back roads of western Rhode Island, creating hand-drawn maps that are a repository of local lore. A typical Matteson map, printed around the middle of ...

Rhode Island isn’t known as “The River State.” But it could be. “The Ocean State,” as it is known, has 400 miles of coastline — and about 1,500 miles of rivers. The Rhode Island ...

John Kostrzewa’s new book, “Walking Rhode Island: 40 Hikes for Nature and History Lovers with Pictures, GPS Coordinates and Trail Maps,” is available at local booksellers and from Amazon.com.