Hiking trails near Newport, Rhode Island

93 official trails lie within 25 miles of Newport — 148 miles in total, 93 rated easy and 0 hard or expert. Every distance and elevation figure below is computed from the agency centerline and a 10 m elevation model, not crowd-sourced.

The biggest climb nearby gains 304 ft; the median trail gains 94 ft.

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24 trails worth the drive

Trail	Miles	Climb	Difficulty	From town
Long and Ell Pond Trail	2.2	227 ft	Easy	24 mi
Yellow	2.9	226 ft	Easy	22 mi
Escoheag Trail	1.9	255 ft	Easy	24 mi
Breakheart trail	2.5	242 ft	Easy	23 mi
Mt. Tom trail	1.6	304 ft	Easy	23 mi
Little Sister	3.0	100 ft	Easy	23 mi
95 Trail	2.1	196 ft	Easy	19 mi
Deep Pond trail	2.1	173 ft	Easy	24 mi
Sakonnet Greenway	4.5	93 ft	Easy	6 mi
Wickaboxet Trail	2.7	117 ft	Easy	24 mi
Pachaug trail	2.1	111 ft	Easy	25 mi
Sammy C Trail	2.6	97 ft	Easy	20 mi
North South Trail	1.8	187 ft	Easy	19 mi
Breakheart Multi-use trail	2.0	135 ft	Easy	23 mi
Shelter trail	2.2	133 ft	Easy	21 mi
Breakheart Pond Trail	1.4	204 ft	Easy	24 mi
Essex Trail	1.6	161 ft	Easy	19 mi
Blue	1.6	112 ft	Easy	14 mi
Red Trail	1.7	105 ft	Easy	12 mi
Bald Hill Brook Trail	1.4	181 ft	Easy	21 mi
WHS XC Loop	1.9	143 ft	Easy	23 mi
Newman Trail	1.1	211 ft	Easy	21 mi
Sizzler	2.3	72 ft	Easy	18 mi
Arcadia trail	1.7	95 ft	Easy	19 mi

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