Tours Index
Around the turn of the 21st century the National Park Service created 34 self guided tours (3 driving, 24 walking and 7 canoe) for the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor (BRVNHC). The original tours where released from 1997 to 2003 and then reformatted in 2012. At that time the Anold Mills tour was dropped after my 2009 review alerted the NPS to the site conditions.
The tours and management of the BRVNHC passed to an NGO, the Blackstone Heritage Corridor Inc. (BHC), around 2015 after the creation of the Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park (BRVNHP). BRVNHC tours reformatted for 2020 are avaialble from the BHC Maps, Tour & Guides page, however the Quinsigamond Village tour seems to have been dropped. The BRVNHP has created online and cell phone app versions for three of the tours
I have entered all the tour routes and sites with descriptions into a Google Earth Pro (GE) file you can download. As I take these tours myself I update the information and create little tour extensions in the GE file. If any readers have other information they would like me to include please feel free to contact me.
Some of the driving and walking tours can be visited virtually using the GE street view layer. The table below shows a bar indicating how much is available as a street view. The table also shows if I have taken the tour or extended it and has links to photographs I’ve taken and PDF format tour brochures.
Tour names with an asterisk link to my tour review page. Review pages have links to the PDF tour brochures.
Driving Tours
Review or 2020 PDF | PDF Old Versions | GE Street View | Visited | Extended | Photos |
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Central Falls, RI | 2012 1999 | ||||
Great Road, Lincoln, RI | 2012 1998 | ||||
Worcester, MA | 2012 2003 |
Walking Tours
Review or 2020 PDF | Old PDFs | GE Street View | Visited | Extended | Photos |
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Arnold Mills, RI* | |||||
Blackstone, MA | 2012 2005 | ||||
Blackstone Canal, MA | 2012 1997 | Not Applicable | |||
Chepachet, RI | 2012 2003 | ||||
Douglas, MA | 2012 1999 | ||||
Georgiaville, RI | 2012 2003 | ||||
Grafton, MA* | |||||
Harrisville, RI | 2012 2003 | ||||
Hopedale, MA* | |||||
Leicester, MA | 2012 2003 | ||||
Mendon, MA* | [ | ||||
Millbury, MA | 2012 2001 | ||||
Millville, RI | 2012 1997 | ||||
Pawtucket, RI | 2012 2001 | ||||
Providence, RI | 2012 2001 | ||||
Quinsigamond, MA | 2012 1999 | ||||
Rumford, RI | 2012 2001 | ||||
Slatersville, RI | 2012 1997 | ||||
Sutton, MA | 2012 1999 | ||||
Upton, MA | 2012 1998 | ||||
Uxbridge, MA | 2012 1997 | ||||
Valley Falls, RI | 2016 2012 1998 | ||||
Whitinsville, MA | 2012 1997 | [ | |||
Woonsocket, RI | 2012 2001 |
River Tours
PDF Link (Letter Size) | Large | Level |
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Plummer’s Landing to River Bend Farm | 11" x 17" | Intermediate |
River Bend Farm | 2 Beginner, 1 Intermediate | |
River Bend Farm to Blackstone Gorge | 11" x 17" | Intermediate |
Blackstone Gorge to Millville Lock | Beginner | |
River Island Park to Manville Dam | 11" x 17" | Beginner |
Blackstone River State Park to Pratt Dam | 11" x 17" | Intermediate |
Valley Falls to Pratt Dam | Beginner |