School House Pond Preserve
About Owned by the Town of Charlestown since 1991, this 93 acre property across from Burlingame Wildlife Management Area was purchased with funding from the Nature Conservancy and Town Open […]
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Burlingame Park & Management Area
About Burlingame State Park and Wildlife Management Area consists of over 3000 acres of land. The State Park contains a campground and a smaller area for picnics, a boat launch, […]
Kimball Wildlife Refuge
About Photo by Cliff Vanover The Audubon Society sold the 29 acre Kimball Wildlife Refuge to DEM in 2015. It abuts Burlingame State Park and is now part of the […]
Charlestown Moraine Preserve
About Owned by the Town of Charlestown since 2013, this 78 acre property was purchased with Town Open Space Bond funds and represents nearly a mile of road frontage on […]
Ninigret National Wildlife Refuge Kettle Pond
About The 115 acre parcel of Ninigret National Wildlife Refuge where the Kettle Pond Visitor Center is located is referred to as the headquarters unit. Purchased in 2001, this parcel […]
Ninigret National Wildlife Refuge Salt Pond
About Established in 1979, it consists of 409 acres of diverse upland and wetland habitats including grasslands, shrub lands, wooded swamps and freshwater ponds. Formerly part of Charlestown Naval Auxiliary […]
Pawaget Park
About Owned by the Town of Charlestown since 1990 and opened as Pawaget Park in 2014, the land was formerly the Golf Driving Range. This 7.5 acre park is handicap […]
Ninigret Park (Town)
About Owned by the Town of Charlestown since 1979, the land was formerly part of the Charlestown Naval Auxiliary Landing Field and was then proposed as the site of a […]
Ninigret Conservation Area
About East State Beach, takes up three miles of undeveloped beach frontage. East Beach is one of the least developed of the Rhode Island state beaches and one of the […]
Charlestown Breachway
About Owned by the State of Rhode Island, this 79 acre property includes a beach that is contiguous with Charlestown Beach, a camping area, and access to fishing. The Breachway […]
Charlestown Beach
About Photo by Dan Slattery Owned by the Town of Charlestown, this collection of different properties includes beach parcels that are contiguous with the State Breachway and another beach area […]
Local Boat Launches
Map by Cliff Vanover – Canoe or Kayak Access – Boat Ramp Look for these symbols in the map above to find a place to put in your canoe […]
Location Map for Charlestown Open Space Parking and Access
Click on a map marker to expand a text box with information about this location. Map markers are located at parking lots or drives that lead to parking. Parking lots […]
Charlestown Open Space Galleries
Please share your photos of Charlestown’s natural areas with us. Send your photos to charlestowncitizens@gmail.com and we’ll add them to these galleries and give you attribution. Click on any photo […]
More Coming Soon!
We’ll have profiles and directions to Charlestown’s natural places as new trail heads are created or new parkland acquired. If we have other data that we think is useful to […]
Conservation Easement on Charlestown Moraine Preserve to go to Voters
At the February 9 meeting, the Town Council voted to put a conservation easement on the Charlestown Moraine Preserve before the voters at the June financial town referendum. The property […]
Open Space and Hard Work Win a 15% Savings on Flood Insurance
Thanks to Charlestown’s past efforts to preserve land as open space and Building Official Joe Warner’s recent hard work to make a winning application to FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program’s […]
Proposal for a New Extraction Ordinance
At the December 8 Town Council meeting, George Tremblay made a proposal (text of that is below) to be submitted to the Town Solicitor and other Town staff for revision […]
Town Council Passes Resolution Asking State Legislature for Mining Regulation
At their December 8 meeting the Town Council unanimously passed the resolution below asking that the RI General Assembly enact legislation that directs the Department of Environmental Management to establish […]
A vote for the Charlestown Citizens Alliance candidates is a vote for the Independent Voice
The following letter appeared in local newspapers and is shared with us here by the author John Goodman. I am writing urging my fellow Charlestown voters to support the Charlestown […]
Town Council asks Legislature to permit Town to regulate extraction
The following resolution was passed by the Charlestown Town Council at their October 14th meeting A RESOLUTION RELATIVE TO THE REGULATION OF EARTH REMOVAL, GRAVEL EXTRACTION AND BLASTING WHEREAS, the […]
Thomas Gentz
Tom has served as president of the Charlestown Town Council since 2010 and has deep roots in Charlestown. His wife’s family has lived here for generations. Tom led the hiring of the Police Chief and Town Administrator, spearheaded the purchase of the Charlestown Moraine Preserve and ChurchWoods, and sits on the State Legislature’s Affordable Housing Study Commission. Currently retired, he was formerly an executive in the health care field and holds an MBA. Tom is a veteran of the US Navy.
George Tremblay
George has lived in Charlestown for 31 years and is a current member of the Town Council and past member of the Planning Commission. He is a retired URI Professor and former business owner with a PhD in Biochemistry. He has a record of challenging any initiative that threatens to undermine local control over planning, zoning, and development in ways that negatively impact the character of our community.
Mark Alexander
Mark has a BS in Space Sciences from Florida Institute of Technology and is a retired semiconductor engineer. Mark has more than 15 years of experience as a volunteer coach for youth football, baseball and basketball and has spent time volunteering and substitute teaching at Charlestown Elementary and Chariho Middle and High Schools. He has lived in Charlestown since 1995.
Barbara Heavers
Barbara is an artist, farmer, scientist, and an award winning educator with Ph.D, MS, and BS degrees in Biology and Zoology. She has taken an active role in land preservation in Charlestown by placing a large portion of her farm in permanent preservation with the Charlestown Land Trust. She has lived in Charlestown since 1971.
Zodiacal Light Returns to Frosty Drew
The website of Frosty Drew Observatory recently published a story that should be of interest to all those who love star filled skies. Since the lighting ordinance passed in Charlestown […]
Town Council Votes 4 to 1 to Purchase “Whalerock” Land
At the August 22 public hearing at the Charlestown Elementary School the Town Council voted to approve the acquisition for open space of land where two utility scale wind turbines with […]
Governor Chafee signed the “Steep Slopes” bill
This spring the House and Senate passed bills taking away a town’s right to deduct steep slopes from the calculation of development potential on a parcel of land. Our State […]
Board needs to find that turbines will not create conditions inimical to the public health.
In their decision, the Zoning Board must make positive findings. One of those findings must be that the proposal will not result in adverse impacts or create conditions that will be inimical to the public health. We do not believe they can make this positive finding.
Town Hires Special Counsel for Whalerock – More Discussion of Findings
The Town Council believes it is in the best interest of the entire Town to hire a special legal counsel with authority to hire appropriate experts on the impact of commercial wind turbines.