Colt State Park

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Bristol’s Colt State Park is Rhode Island’s most scenic park, with its entire western border fronting Narragansett Bay. The parks is fringed by 4 miles of cycling trails and has more than 400 shaded picnic tables (you read that correctly!) set among 464 acres of groomed fruit trees, flower beds and lush greenery.


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