Cliff Walk (Newport, Rhode Island)

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Newport Cliff Walk - 3.5 miles
The Cliff Walk has justly been called by travelers competent to judge, the most beautiful walk in the world. It is a public path, beginning at Bath Road,(Memorial Blvd.), just above Easton's Beach,and winding over the rocky cliffs and spacious lawns that border upon the ocean, for three and a half miles, until it reaches Bailey's Beach. On one side, forty feet below the path, the restless waves dash against the rocks; while on the other hand, lies a matchless panorama of no less than fifty estates, including some of America's most elegant residences, embowered in gardens of surpassing luxuriance. (Guide to Newport, 1919 - www.archive.org/stream/guidetonewportrh00weis/guidetone...
see also - www.cliffwalk.com/

"The walk was at first a fisherman's trail, but the wealthy estate owners
begrudged the use of it by natives and erected barriers and iron gateways
to bar them. This action outraged the Newporters, who went to court
about it; the court decided that the fishermen's shore rights entitled them
to an unobstructed way around the island. The 'cottagers' made the
best of it by opening the gates, removing the barriers they had erected,
and laying out this beautiful path."
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