Relive the historic gilded ages and visit the magnificent mansions in Newport. Don’t miss this activity if you have some extra time in the area! Would highly recommend The Elms and Rosecliff. You may buy tickets online or at the mansions.
The International Tennis Hall of Fame preserves and promotes the history of tennis and celebrates its champions. It includes a museum, grass tennis courts, an indoor tennis facility, and a court tennis facility. The courts are the nation's oldest, continuously used, grass courts. They are also the only competition grass courts open to the public to play on.
Drive 15 minutes to Fort Adams, a fort built around the time of the Civil War to defend the US coastline from threats across the Atlantic. It stayed in action until WWII, and is now a historic site and museum. You can walk around the exterior of the fortress on your own, but you must tour the fortress to go inside.
Ranked as the #1 public access course in New England, this 18-hole links-style course sports sloping fairways, marshes, and strategically placed bunkers. The dramatic setting features views of the Atlantic Ocean and Sakonnet Passage, while challenging golfers with steady winds coming off the Narragansett Bay. Newport National is reminiscent of courses in Ireland and the legendary Scottish links and Golfweek Magazine placed the course in the “Top Twenty New Courses in America”.
Come sail Newport, Rhode Island and Narragansett Bay. Enjoy daily scheduled public sailing cruises, sunset sails and private sailing charters aboard three beautiful vessels. You'll see stately seaside estates, world famous yachts and America's Cup racers all against the stunning backdrop of a historic colonial town and picturesque, rocky shoreline.