We've been finding these places lately that are really "off the beaten path. Of course, the entire town of Little Compton is pretty much "off the beaten path". This spot is at the end of a dirt road. There's a parking area, and an open grassy field. There are no picnic tables, but there is a bench with an overlook of the ocean.
There's a stone path that leads from the grass area, down a hill to the very rocky beach. The beach is beautiful! There's a very small sandy area, the rest is loose pebbles of varying sizes.
The beach faces south and out to the Atlantic Ocean. We walked the rocky shoreline, around the large cliff, and out to what looks like another small beach. We were here for about two hours, and had the beach completely to ourselves for about an hour and a half of that!
It was a warm, sunny, day in Mid-June, so I was very surprised there was not more people here. There's not a lot of walking opportunity here, and if you walk the beach, you'll be walking on loose stone, so you have to have good footing. It's a great spot to bring the dogs to cool off. It was sort of hazy when we arrived, but cleared up more and more while we were here, and it turned out to be a wonderful day!
This secret spot was a really nice surprise! This might have been just an ordinary walk int he woods, but volunteers have taken the extra steps to make this place a little bit more than that. There are signs that they created all along the way describing the plant life and history of the area. The first part of the trail that leads from the parking lot to the pond features 30 hand made poop shovels strategically placed along the trail. The sign on the main information board instructs dog walkers to "Launch it far off this laneway with a dog shovel".
