RHODE ISLAND

MUST SEES

• The new Roger Williams Park Botanical Center in Providence is the largest indoor garden in New England.
• In Portsmouth, an elephant and a camel are among 21 ‘creatures’ clipped out of boxwood and privet at the Green Animals Topiary Garden.
• For 50 years, Newport was the home of the America’s Cup. See some of the racing yachts in the harbour; fi nd out how they were designed and built at the Herreshoff Marine and America’s Cup Museum in Bristol.
• In Woonsocket, the Museum of Work and Culture tells the compelling story of the French Canadians, who left the farms of Québec for the factories of New England.
• In Bristol, the stunning Blithewold Mansion, Gardens and Arboretum overlooks Narragansett Bay. The century-old mansion has 50,000 daffs, a Japanese water garden.

RHODE ISLAND

We wanted rock pools to explore, sandy beaches for building castles, lighthouses to admire and barbecued hot dogs for tea. Within seconds of stepping off the ferry onto Block Island it quickly became apparent that we had found exactly what we were looking for – a different world... Paul Simon, The Guardian www.visitrhodeisland.com