RI-114 — Aquidneck Island to Bristol via Mount Hope Bridge

The southern stretch of Route 114 — from Middletown north through Portsmouth and across the two-lane Mount Hope Bridge (suspension, 1929) to Bristol — is the segment prized by riders. The Portsmouth section runs through rural Aquidneck Island farmland before the bridge crossing over Mount Hope Bay. In Bristol, the road becomes Hope Street, famous for its patriotic red-white-and-blue center stripe (marking the oldest continuously run Fourth of July parade in the U.S., since 1777). The route passes Colt State Park (464 acres on Narragansett Bay) and Blithewold mansion before continuing north through Warren and Barrington.