Elliot’s Ride for Everyone

Newport’s Ocean Drive Without Cars!

Imagine enjoying a leisurely roll or stroll along Newport’s most stunning and iconic coastal road… without cars. Here’s your chance!

Elliot’s Ride for Everyone is the family-favorite ride of the year! (watch the 2023 video). This free community event features safe, family-friendly fun for all… every age, every mobility, every kind of cyclist, hiker, roller, and stroller. Come enjoy the wind in your hair and smiles on everyone’s faces – experience the joys of biking and hiking along Newport’s captivating coastline – car-free!

Bring your family and friends, and spread the word to all you know. These few hours offer a wonderful chance to celebrate public space and show what’s possible when bicyclists and bikeways, pedestrians and walkways, are safe from cars and everyone can experience beautiful places happily, confidently, and worry-free.

Please bring your water bottle – water stations and light snacks will be available along the way – as well as “Clear Harbor” – from Newport Craft’s new line of non-alcoholic beverages.

Suggested Donation: $10 per Rider. Donations are not required. Donations of all sizes are welcome, and support Bike Newport’s inclusive programs for bike safety education and advocacy. Thank you! We ask all riders to kindly pre-register on Eventbrite for our planning purposes, and to digitally sign the event liability waiver and help us avoid using paper forms.

8:45 am: Event begins with an official welcome in front of Rogers High School – where you’ll find parking, refreshment, and bathroom facilities.

9:00am: Newport Police will close the route to cars – including the length of Hazard Road, through the Goose Neck Salt Marsh, and Ocean Avenue from Carroll Avenue (at the east end) to Harrison Avenue (at the west end).

12:00pm: cars will again enter the roadway so you’ll want to be safely off the road before that time.

Note to area residents living on the route: Residents with urgent need to bring their vehicle onto the route during the event should call the Newport Police at (401) 847-1306. If you have any question in advance of the event, feel free to contact Allyson McCalla at Bike Newport at (401) 619-4900.

Register for free

“Gigi”, Bike Newport’s piloted trishaw from our Cycling Without Age program will be on hand providing piloted rides for those who may find it helpful.

This event is generously sponsored by our friends at:

And made possible with charitable support from The Kaminitz Family:

About Elliot Kaminitz

Elliot’s Ride for Everyone honors the life and passion of Dr. Elliot Kaminitz – a much-loved community member who lost his life while riding on Memorial Blvd in 2012. Elliot wanted everyone to experience the joy of bicycling.

From Elliot’s children:
Our Dad was a devoted husband, loving father and doting Papa who treasured family above all else, a gentle individual, loved by patients and staff. He loved to bicycle – and he died tragically while riding his favorite route adjacent to the beaches he loved – a road now graced with a much safer dedicated bike lane. We want to see more safer cycling progress here in Newport and everywhere. Our dad would love everything about Elliot’s Ride. He would love seeing the whole community out enjoying Newport from the seat of a bicycle. Thank you for joining our call for more, better, and safer cycling in his honor and memory.

– With love from Adam Kaminitz, Ilicia Kaminitz Strasser, Jon Strasser, Coco Lin.

Become a Sponsor of Elliot’s Ride for Everyone

If you or someone you know would like to become a Sponsor of this joy-filled community event, please contact chris@bikenewportri.org. With 500 riders and growing, Elliot’s Ride for Everyone offers a high-visibility sponsorship opportunity for area businesses.