South County — Washington County (Narragansett, Westerly, URI)

US-1 Coastal / RI-138 / RI-4 / RI-2 / Block Island Ferry

Washington County, Rhode Island — known locally as **'South County'** — is the southwestern Rhode Island coastal area stretching from North Kingstown south to the Connecticut border at Westerly. Anchored by **Narragansett** (home of the historic Narragansett Pier with 'The Towers' stone landmark, the Point Judith lighthouse, and the Block Island Ferry terminal at Galilee State Pier), **Westerly** (a historic granite-quarrying town on the CT border, home of the upscale Watch Hill resort area where Taylor Swift and other celebrities own homes, and the Westerly Amtrak Station), **South Kingstown** (containing Wakefield, Peace Dale, and **Kingston RI** — home of the University of Rhode Island, the state's flagship public university with ~17,000 students), **Charlestown** (a small coastal town with Ninigret Pond and the Burlingame State Park), **Exeter**, **Hopkinton**, **North Kingstown** (with the historic Wickford Village and Quonset Point — formerly Naval Air Station Quonset Point, now the Quonset Business Park), **Richmond**, and the offshore **New Shoreham (Block Island)** — the only Rhode Island town entirely on an island, accessible by ferry from Point Judith or New London CT.