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Walk Bellevue Avenue with a self-guided audio tour that unpacks the stories behind Newport’s Gilded Age mansions. Downloadable and offline, it lets you explore Rough Point, Belcourt, and The Breakers at your own pace.
Walk Bellevue Avenue with a self-guided audio tour that unpacks the stories behind Newport’s Gilded Age mansions. Downloadable and offline, it lets you explore Rough Point, Belcourt, and The Breakers at your own pace.
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Operated by VoiceMap Audio Tours · Newport, Rhode Island
You start on a broad, tree-lined stretch of Bellevue Avenue with the Atlantic wind nudging past clipped hedges and iron gates. The audio begins at Rough Point and guides you past stone facades, bronze statuary, and lawns that once hosted the city’s richest families. Voices in your ear point to details you might otherwise miss—the carved cornices, the service entrances, the stoic staff quarters set behind showpiece façades.
easy.
1–1.5 hours.
Suitable for most fitness levels; expect light walking with occasional steps and street crossings.
No—the audio tour is self-guided and free to walk; entrance fees to any house museums are not included but you can pause the tour to buy tickets and tour interiors.
Yes—the code you receive can be used by every member of your party to download the tour in the VoiceMap app.
Much of Bellevue Avenue is paved and stroller-friendly, but some sections and side paths (like parts of the Cliff Walk) have steps or uneven surfaces—check accessibility locally for specific stretches.
Download the tour and maps for offline use before you leave; the app is designed to operate without constant cell service once downloaded.
Newport’s Gilded Age houses were built between roughly 1870–1915 for industrial-era elites; many later became museums or philanthropic endowments.
High visitor numbers strain coastal paths and lawns—stay on public walkways, pack out waste, and avoid climbing bluffs to protect fragile shoreline vegetation.
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