BLOCK ISLAND: One of the "Last Great Places"

Would you like to experience historic Atlantic island life without the attendant tourist economy and crowded peak-time crowds? Block Island is the place for you. The island is a working-class community which welcomes the well-behaved to its shores with open arms. It's a truly affordable place to experience the island life of the Atlantic coast. It's a family-oriented resort with affordable accomodations boasting great fishing, bicycling, swimming, hiking and nature watching. Bird watchers flock there in the fall as it's a preferred stopping place for almost every migratory species on its way south.

The beaches are spectacular and the island boasts the only other "white cliffs" in the Northern Hemisphere, a sister site to the world famous "White Cliffs of Dover" on the English Channel. Many say the island is as close to Ireland as you can get without traveling across the Atlantic.