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Visitor Centers to open in the Blackstone Valley this weekend.

 

May 25 will be the day that the Visitor Center at the Blackstone River State Park in Lincoln and the Blackstone Valley Visitor Center at 175 Main Street in Pawtucket will be open to Welcome our Visitors to Rhode Island's Blackstone River Valley.

 

RI Department of Environmental Management will be staffing the Visitor Center at the State Park in Lincoln along with the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council from 7:00am to 3:30pm each day.  The Visitor Center is located along I-295N in Lincoln.   The Visitor Center on 175 Main Street in Pawtucket will be open Thursday through Sunday each week from 10am to 4pm and staffed by the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council.

 

Each Visitor Center will offer a wide range of materials and consultation that will engage the first-time Visitor with all of the activities available from Worcester MA to Newport Rhode Island.

 

The Visitor Center in Lincoln opened in 2006 the Visitor Center in Pawtucket opened in 1999.

 

For additional information contact:  Robert D. Billington, President, Blackstone Valley Tourism Council.  

 

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Joan Loos, Tour Development

Blackstone Valley Tourism Council

1420 Broad Street, Central Falls, RI  02863

401-724-2200, Ext. 203

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tourblackstone.com

 

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