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National Parks in Rhode Island.

By Nicholas Major · Last updated

Rhode Island has two NPS units: Roger Williams National Memorial (Providence, on the site of Rhode Island's founding) and the Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park, a 50-mile corridor through the cradle of the American Industrial Revolution that the park shares with Massachusetts. Add to that the segments of the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail that run through the state. T.F. Green International (PVD) in Warwick is the main anchor airport; Boston Logan (BOS, Massachusetts) is another option for the northern Blackstone units. Both NPS units operate year-round with seasonal interpretive programming and ranger-led walks concentrated in summer. Blackstone Valley includes restored cotton mills and worker-housing districts in Pawtucket, Slatersville, and the Whitin and Slater historic districts; the corridor's 50-mile geography makes it more of a multi-day driving tour than a single-site visit.

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NPS source records in Rhode Island.

Rhode Island has 4 records in our combined NPS metadata and visitor-statistics registry: 1 National Historical Park · 1 National Memorial · 1 National Historic Site · 1 National Historic Trail. This is a source-record count, not the Park Service's official system-unit census. Combined 5-year-average annual visits: 34,893 (multi-state units count their full visits in every state they touch, see methodology). The most-visited record is Roger Williams National Memorial at about 35K annual visits.

Every National Park Service site in Rhode Island, mapped. Each glowing marker is one site, placed at its real coordinates and colored by type. Select a marker for its yearly visits and a link, or use the filters to show or hide a group. 3 of 4 units are mapped here; long-distance trails and units centered in another state are in the table below.
National Park Service sites in Rhode Island, mapped Interactive map of Rhode Island showing the location of 3 National Park Service sites, colored by type: national parks, monuments and memorials, historic sites, recreation areas and seashores, rivers, trails and parkways, and other sites. Each site is also listed with its yearly visits in the table below the map.

Marker positions are each unit's official NPS coordinates. State outline: U.S. Census cartographic boundary (public domain). Independent site, not affiliated with the National Park Service.

UnitDesignation5-yr avg visitsBusiest month
Roger Williams National Memorial National MemorialROWI 34,893 July
Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park National Historical ParkBLRV — —
Touro Synagogue National Historic Site National Historic SiteTOSY — —
Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail National Historic TrailWARO — —

Methodology

Rows come from our combined NPS metadata and Visitor Use Statistics registry, not the Park Service's official census of 433 managed system units. Per-record visit counts come from the official NPS Visitor Use Statistics Data Package, 2025; the "5-year average visits" column is the mean of 2021-2025 Recreation Visits. Multi-state records are listed under every state they touch, and their full visit total appears in each state. Official National Park counts use the central 63-park classification rather than the source designation label alone. Independent site, not affiliated with the National Park Service.

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Independent site. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the National Park Service. Data comes from the official NPS Visitor Use Statistics Data Package, 2025; editorial analysis is ours. The NPS Arrowhead and other NPS marks are not used.

Last updated · 2026-08-28