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A FALL RHODE TRIP

Rhode Island is an oft-overlooked destination for an RV adventurer or vanlifer. Sadly, you’re not going to find an RV park nestled between the mansions of Newport (but I do encourage you to drive your 1970s rattler around the neighborhood and tell everyone you encounter about your ‘mansion on wheels’).

America’s smallest state has a reputation for being a playground for the richest of the rich, who spend their summers sunning themselves on their endless acres of land. Nobody’s told the well-to-do that the real beauty of Rhode Island is found outside the confines of their cushy pieds-à-terre, in the state parks and forests, and along the lengthy coastline of this tiny but endlessly rewarding state.

A road-trip adventure in Rhode Island is easily begun in the south, where there are

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