Once the vision of a past president of the BGC in the early 1970’s, Osamequin Nature Preserve and Bird Sanctuary are today 42 acres of trails and pristine salt marsh property that line the west shore of the Barrington River’s Hundred Acre Cove. The property is jointly managed and maintained by the BGC and the Barrington Land Conservation Trust. BGC members gather there on a regular basis to help maintain this valuable resource.

Osamequin Nature Sanctuary offers visitors a place to enjoy the diverse sample of Rhode Island's coastal plant and animal communities along the west shore of the Barrington River's Hundred Acre Cove, Rhode Island's most extensive and pristine inland estuarine system. This system has been noted by the US Fish and Wildlife Service to be one of the 50 most important coastal marshes between Long Island and Cape Cod. The trail system on the preserve offers several views of the cove as well as the various habitats and environments within the preserve. The trails are all easy and flat and each habitat type is accessible to refuge visitors via the color-coded trails which begin with the green trail at the park entrance. Explore RI

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