Hanging Rock

USA / Rhode Island / Newport East / Hanging Rock Road
 scenic lookout, rocks

"At the south end of Middletown a more rugged and dramatic landscape is presented by an area of outcropping conglomerate rocks with bold rock faces and a series of parallel ridges, including Paradise Rocks, Hanging Rock, and Purgatory. Hanging Rock, a vast conglomerate ledge frequented by Bishop Berkeley (the noted eighteenth-century divine), and nearby Purgatory, with its deep, wave-worn chasm and bedrock of "stretched pebbles," are among the most interesting and important geological features of Rhode Island."

www.middletownri.com/misc/history.php

to get here follow the trails through Norman Bird Santuary - www.normanbirdsanctuary.org
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Coordinates:   41°29'28"N   71°15'32"W
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