Quietest hikes in Rhode Island
The highest acoustic-wildness scores: the routes where road noise, towns, and machinery are least audible, by distance and by the terrain in the way.
These are the 25 quietest hikes Ambleway has measured in Rhode Island, from 81% quiet at the top of the board to 72% quiet at the bottom. They run from 3.0 to 8.9 miles. The biggest climb on the board is Breakheart Pond Trail–Shelter Trail, 4 sights, gaining 677 ft. They lie across 5 named parks, forests, and preserves.
- Border/Munyon Connector–Munyon Trail, 4 sights 5.5 mi · ▲ 260 ft · 81% quiet
- Ben Utter Trail–Breakheart Multi-use trail, 3 sights 6.2 mi · ▲ 501 ft · 81% quiet
- Breakheart Multi-use trail–Breakheart Pond Trail, 3 sights 4.7 mi · ▲ 464 ft · 80% quiet
- North South Trail–Richardson Trail, 3 sights 4.9 mi · ▲ 204 ft · 79% quiet
- Munyon Trail & Richardson Trail 3.8 mi · ▲ 169 ft · 79% quiet
- Breakheart Pond Trail 4.9 mi · ▲ 477 ft · 78% quiet
- Newman Trail & Tanner Washout via Plain Road 7.3 mi · ▲ 504 ft · 77% quiet
- Wakefield Pond–Peck Pond, 3 lakes 4.5 mi · ▲ 273 ft · 77% quiet
- Richardson Pond–Notre Dame Trail, 3 sights 4.8 mi · ▲ 220 ft · 77% quiet
- Plain Road 6.2 mi · ▲ 324 ft · 76% quiet
- Breakheart trail 3.7 mi · ▲ 112 ft · 75% quiet
- Breakheart Pond Trail–Shelter Trail, 4 sights 7.6 mi · ▲ 677 ft · 75% quiet
- Breakheart Pond–Breakheart trail Loop, 6 sights 3.1 mi · ▲ 140 ft · 75% quiet
- Breakheart Multi-use trail–Breakheart trail Loop, 5 sights 5 mi · ▲ 168 ft · 74% quiet
- Shetucket Turnpike via Bassett Mill Road 4.6 mi · ▲ 169 ft · 74% quiet
- Peck Pond–Richardson Pond, 6 sights 7.8 mi · ▲ 279 ft · 74% quiet
- Shetucket Turnpike & Tippecansett trail 8.9 mi · ▲ 388 ft · 74% quiet
- Matteson Plain Road 4.8 mi · ▲ 309 ft · 74% quiet
- Barber Road & Shelter Trail via Plain Road 5.9 mi · ▲ 361 ft · 74% quiet
- Providence Point Lane 3.5 mi · ▲ 0 ft · 74% quiet
- Peck Pond–Richardson Pond, 5 sights 7.4 mi · ▲ 369 ft · 74% quiet
- Plain Road & Shelter Trail 7 mi · ▲ 393 ft · 73% quiet
- Ben Utter Trail 3 mi · ▲ 191 ft · 73% quiet
- Tanner Cutoff & Tanner Washout via Plain Road 6.2 mi · ▲ 532 ft · 73% quiet
- Stepingstone Falls Waterfall and Hilking Paths–River Trail, 3 sights 7.2 mi · ▲ 249 ft · 72% quiet