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Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor
Blackstone River Bikeway
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The Blackstone River Bikeway
One of the most exciting projects currently underway in the Heritage Corridor is the construction of the Blackstone River Bikeway. When completed, this bikeway will extend forty-eight miles from downtown Worcester, MA to India Point Park in Providence, RI. From there it will connect with the existing East Bay Bikepath and continue on to Bristol, RI.

The bikeway will serve as an alternate mode of transportation for commuters as well as the region's premiere recreational bicycle facility, connecting New England's second and third largest cities serving a population of more than 1 million.

Currently, 10 miles of bike path are open to the public in Central Falls, Lincoln, & Cumberland, RI. An additional 2.5 miles of bikeway are complete in Worcester and Millbury, MA.

The Bikeway is being constructed thanks largely to U.S. Department of Transportation funding. Other partners include: Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, Massachusetts Highway Department, and the Rhode Island Department of Transportation with support from communities up and down the Blackstone Valley.
 
Overview map of bikeway

Overview of Bikeway

To learn more about the Bikeway, explore the following:

Rhode Island section 
Massachusetts section
What is new on the Bikeway
Directions to Bikeway Parking Lots

Visit the website of the Blackstone River Bikeway Patrolto learn more about what they do and see their pocket guide to the Bikeway.

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Did You Know?
That the Blackstone River is getting cleaner? Efforts are underway to transform the Blackstone, once considered "dead' due to a century of industrial abuse, into a fishable and swimmable river by 2015!

Last Updated: September 01, 2010 at 09:16 EST