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
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
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

River Tours Overview PDF