The Cliff Walk along the eastern shore of Newport, RI is world famous as a public access walk that combines the natural beauty of the Newport shoreline with the architectural history of Newport's …

If you only have a short time to do a piece of Cliff Walk drive down Narragansett Ave. to the Forty Steps and walk south past Salve Regina College and the Breakers.

Serious development of Cliff Walk started about 1880, and the estate owners spent the next 50 years (to about 1929) improving the walk piece by piece. The Great Depression threw the walk development …

By using Google Maps you are able to use a smart device such as an Android or iPhone to track where you are along the Cliff Walk trail. There are five segments to the walk:

Rhode Island's Section 32-6 of the state laws gives property owners "Limitation" from liability in regard to walkers on the Walk. We are not lawyers but all walkers should be aware of the following state law.

This section of the walk is also the most difficult. But if you do reach Ledge Rd., cross over to find your way over the pile of rocks just past the gate to walk the last segment ... it is a lot more interesting …