Click on the "Trail Map (PDF)" button to download a PDF of the trail map that you can print and take with you on the trail.

Avenza maps are special, free maps that you can use in the Avenza app on your smart phone. These maps let you see your location on the map as you walk. Download the Avenza App for free in the Apple App Store or on Google Play

Click on the Avenza Trail Map button to "purchase" the free map for this trail from the Avenza map store. If this is your first time, Avenza will ask you to set up an account to check out. However, all Avenza trail maps listed on ExploreRI are free.

In Rhode Island the primary hunting seasons typically run from the second Saturday in September to the last day of February and from the third Saturday in April to the last day in May, however this can vary from year to year and depends on what game is being hunted. During hunting season you should wear at least 200 square inches (a hat OR a vest) of blaze orange. During shotgun deer season, which is typically in December, you should wear at least 500 square inches of blaze orange (a hat AND a vest). For more information see the RI DEM website.

Spruce Acres is a 22.7 acre former Christmas tree farm on Middletown/Portsmouth town line. The site was purchased by Aquidneck Land Trust in 2017 with the help of the community and officially opened for trail use in 2018. A total of 1.5 miles of hiking trail loop through the site. There is a one-way in one-way out parking lot located off East Main Rd with ample parking. It is an important conservation site in a number of ways, featuring great wildlife habitat, prime soils, and an important location in the Sisson Pond watershed.

At the parking lot there is a trailhead kiosk and trail signage that will direct you behind a few outbuildings to the Gewirz Trail. Please follow trail rules and be respectful of neighbors. The buildings in the frontage area on site are not public access. After proceeding past the frontage area that includes the buildings and some lawns, the trail follows an old farm road for a few hundred feet before opening up into the more natural hiking trails.

There is a one-mile blue loop around the perimeter of the property and various trails cutting through the old tree farm rows of spruces with hardwoods and scrub-shrub habitats mixed in. If you walk every trail on site and head back to the car you will walk 1.5 miles.

Aquidneck Land Trust will be making improvements to the site as time goes along to include benches, interpretative signage, a community garden, native plantings, and lease of certain areas for farming.

Aquidneck Land Trust's web page for Spruce Acres Farm

Dogs: Dogs must be leashed and picked up after at ALL times.

This is a Creature Challenge site. The creature is on the Blue Loop.
Learn more about the Creature Challenge.

East Main Road Trailhead

Driving Landmarks: The street address is 1286 East Main Rd, Middletown RI. This brings you to the house on the property but it is a shared driveway. The parking area is on the west side of East Main Rd. The closest intersection is Mitchells Lane and East Main Rd. Parking is obvious.

Parking: Yes: Parking lot, 19 spaces, no overnight parking

ADA Accessible Parking Spaces? No

Coordinates: 41° 32.32' N    71° 15.985' W   See this location in: Google Maps   Acme Maps