Rhode Island's Best and Unique Geocaches

Here are our recommendations for the best, shortest, longest, highest, weirdest, scariest, and otherwise unique geocaches in Rhode Island. 

1. Best Hike: The Magnificent Mile Cache   (Photo) (archived). (And the others by Mike and Christine.)

2.  Best Walk on the Beach: Catch a Wave  (Photo) (archived) .  Bring some shorts.

3. Best Tourist Combo: Brenton Point Cache (RI's oldest) & Cliff Cache  (Photo).  Both in Newport.  Fly a kite at the Point, see the mansions along the Cliff Walk.  Enjoy the ocean views and have a nice lunch.

4.  Best Corner: RI-CT-MA Tri-State Marker  (Photo).  Be in three states at once!

5.  Best Puzzle Cache: Numeration Destination. Get out the calculator and get ready to Google.

6.  Weirdest Landmark: Toaster Head  (Photo) (archived).  The cache name says it all. (This cache is also a letterbox.)

7.  Best Story for Cache: The Witch Hunt.  The story about the witch adds an additional excitement.

8.  Closest to Car: Trash Cache  (also most aromatic) (archived).

Honorable Mention: William Blackstone Memorial.

9.  Highest Caches: Virtual Rhode Island Highest  and Rhode Island Highest  (Photo). Both are Subscriber-Only Caches. (We hope you're not afraid of heights.)

10. Longest: The Vin Gormley Trail Multicache System.  There are five easy to find caches over an eight mile loop.

11.  Best Bike-Cache Combo:  Start with the Bike Path - North End (archived) on the East Bay Bike Path, and then continue south to the Colt State Park Maze Cache. Next, bike down to the Silver Creek Goodie Box which is near the southern end of the bike path.

12. NST Caches: While hiking the North South Trail, check out these caches which are close by: North, Stepstone Falls, Browning Mill Pond Cache (archived), Hydrology on the Meadow Brook, and Butch and Sundance (arvhived).