There are privately owned and operated beaches all over the state.
I’ve been going to Sachuest Beach my entire life & it’s become too expensive to visit. Of course, this issue isn’t exclusive to Lloyd’s beach. The reason I’m on this post in the first place is because I’ve been looking for places to stargaze in RI - and guess where one of the most recommended places are? All I see online are articles about how the residents don’t want people parking on their roads, that “emergency vehicles won’t have access with people parked alongside the street” ( - the streets are 33′ wide). The white stones and the way the water crashes over them, the sound of the water washing away. I remember being there as a kid a few summers in a row. I’m with the author - Lloyd’s beach really is special. My parents worked for these kinds of wealthy people, and because they had summer homes in Little Compton, would advise us to drop their names for access to Lloyd’s beach. My parents immigrated here from Portugal in the 70s, and have cleaned people’s houses their entire lives. It’s disgusting that a wealthy few white folks in RI have the ability to not only claim the beaches for themselves, but to hire people to prevent people from entering! So absurd.ĪJ is right in that they pick and choose who has access at will.
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RI should take pride in being the ocean state - I think this means educating all of its residents & guests how to care for our ecosystems but also allowing access to these areas. This is strictly enforced during the summer months.Īlmost one year later and I still want answers! There is absolutely no excuse for beaches to be private, they’re a natural geographical phenomenon and, just like the OP wrote in this post, can be sources of ecological exploration and discovery for our residents. * Lloyd’s beach is privately owned is accessible only to Little Compton residents and their guests. The Little Compton Historical Society has scanned a few vintage postcards of the area. I’d heard there used to be a restaurant out there that was destroyed by a hurricane, but couldn’t find much more info online. There are a few islands offshore, and you can see building ruins from the beach. But I’ll never forget how the wind howled so fiercely it almost sounded like sirens were calling from the beach. It was so freezing that we barely lasted 10 minutes. I once came here at midnight with a high school boyfriend to watch a meteor shower. In the summer,* the beach and surrounding scenery are pure heaven, and in the other seasons it’s wild and wavy and exhilarating. The landscape surrounding this beach (like most of Little Compton) is beautifully preserved, and the protected open spaces are interrupted only by New England style homes and cottages. Looking out from the easternmost tip of the beach, all you can see is the vast Atlantic Ocean in front of you, as you gaze out towards Portugal. It was here that I first saw harbor seals in the wild (in winter, they haul out on the rocks offshore and you can see them with binoculars). Growing up as a wanna-be marine biologist, this is where I would come to feel connected to the ocean.
If I had to pick one favorite spot in Rhode Island, it would be Lloyd’s Beach in Little Compton. All Posts, Family-Friendly Adventures, New England, Travel Tips and Ideas.Just beyond the Commons Lunch is the library, where you can get to a computer. They specialize in clams, too, or quahogs they're called locally, and pies and cakes. For breakfast it serves Johnny cakes, meaty, wafer-thin pancakes that have all but disappeared from Rhode Island menus. A fire destroyed it a few years ago, but a most entreneurial owner, George Crowther, has rebuilt and expanded it. Then there's the Commons Lunch, the town cafe. You can spend a half hour in there, wandering room to room. Wilbur's General Store, rescued from near oblivion a decade or so ago, is now an archetype of the classic model, selling, truly, just about everything, including produce, meat it butchers, domestic hardware, basic clothing, writing paper, newspapers. Hollywood tried to persuade the townspeople to film its raunchy "Witches of Eastwick" but they recoiled and chased the filmmakers off to Massachusetts. You can spend an hour or two strolling the triangular, three-century-old Little Compton Commons, across from the town school, enclosing an old graveyard and the Congregational church, and one of just a few town commons left.
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