Disclaimer

1. What this page is

This Disclaimer explains the limits of what hayracetravel.com offers and what responsibility stays with the reader. The site is published by Hayrace Media LLC, a registered Rhode Island Limited Liability Company in Providence. It applies to every article, hub page, and note we publish, including the newsletter called The Timetable. Please read it together with the Terms of Use, which govern your use of the site as a whole. This version is dated July 20, 2026, and it replaces anything published here earlier. Nothing here is meant to frighten anyone off a sidewalk, only to place responsibility where it belongs.

2. A gazette, for information and pleasure

Hayrace Travel is an independent gazette about small journeys made on foot near Providence and across New England. The gazette publishes two standing sections, Circuits for walking loops and Junctions for essays about transit places. Everything on the site is journalism, personal essay, and route description, offered for general information and enjoyment. Articles record what one walker saw on one day, with the weather and the mood that came along. They are not instructions, not official guidance, and not a substitute for your own judgment on the ground. Treat every route as a story with directions inside it, rather than a certified map. Reading for pleasure is the intended use, and planning should always involve sources beyond us. Where an article and the world disagree, the world wins, and we would rather you trust it.

3. No professional advice of any kind

Nothing on this site is legal, financial, medical, or immigration advice, and nothing here creates a professional relationship. We are writers and walkers, not attorneys, accountants, physicians, or licensed advisers of any sort. Questions about visas, border rules, taxes, insurance, or medical matters belong with a licensed professional in the relevant field. If an article mentions a rule, a station gate, or a schedule, it reports an observation, not counsel. That list is not exhaustive, and any field with a license and an exam belongs on it. When a decision matters, ask someone qualified to answer for your specific situation.

4. Walking routes are taken at your own risk

Every route in the Circuits section describes a real walk, and real walks change from day to day. You choose whether to follow one, and you walk it at your own risk and your own pace. Weather turns quickly near the water, and a dry morning can hand you a slick afternoon. Surfaces vary from smooth pavement to brick, gravel, boardwalk, and grass, sometimes within a single mile. Tides matter along the harbor paths, and a walkway dry at noon may be damp by evening.

Parks, stations, and waterfronts keep posted hours, and gates that were open for us may be locked for you. Respect private property, stay on public ways, and follow the instructions of staff and posted signs wherever you walk. If a gate is closed, treat the closure as the route for today and go around without argument. Some routes include stairs, narrow bridges, or rough ground, and each article names such features plainly. Public transit is the start and end of every circuit, and service can be replaced by shuttles or skipped entirely. Leave margin around the last departure, since the walk home is longer without it. Bring water, wear shoes you trust, and turn back whenever a path stops feeling right. No article can see the ground under your feet on the day you go.

5. Weather, seasons, and daylight

New England weather rewrites a walking route faster than any editor could hope to. Snow hides curbs, ice keeps its own schedule, and summer heat turns a pleasant mile into a long one. Daylight shrinks quickly in late fall, and a loop planned for afternoon can end in the dark. Articles name the season we walked in, and that detail deserves your attention when you plan. Check a forecast the morning you go, and let the sky outvote the gazette whenever they disagree. None of this is drama, only the ordinary arithmetic of being outside in a real place.

6. Accuracy and the passage of time

We check names, distances, and landmarks against public sources on the date each article is published. Even so, the world keeps editing itself after our deadline, and print stays still while places move. Timetables shift with the seasons, station doors change their hours, and construction rearranges corners without asking us. The Providence area rebuilds itself with real enthusiasm, and detours appear between our walk and your reading. Before you travel, confirm schedules, opening hours, and service on the official pages of the operator or municipality. Distances come from our own measured tracks, and small differences from your device are normal. A number on this site is a report of one walk, never a promise about yours. Each article carries its publication date, and older issues deserve an extra measure of doubt. We correct meaningful errors when readers point them out, and corrections are noted in the article itself.

7. Mentions are not endorsements

Articles name streets, parks, stations, landings, and public buildings because routes pass them, not because anyone asked. No place, agency, or organization pays for a mention, and none reviews our text before publication. A kind word about a bench or a bakery reflects one visit, and your visit may differ. Likewise, a mention does not imply that any place endorses this gazette or its publisher. We buy our own coffee, pay our own fares, and mention no one in exchange for anything. The absence of a mention means nothing at all, except that our route went another way.

8. Not a travel agency, not a carrier

Hayrace Travel plans no trips, sells no tickets or lodging, and processes no payments of any kind. The publisher holds no affiliation with any airline, railway, ferry operator, bus company, or booking platform. When an essay lingers at a depot or an airfield fence, it is watching, not selling. Any arrangement you make with a carrier or a host is entirely between you and them. No affiliate links exist anywhere on the site, and no commission arrives from anything you book elsewhere. Their terms, their schedules, and their decisions are theirs alone, and we cannot intervene in disputes.

9. Essays describe places, not services

The Junctions section spends time in stations, landings, and waiting rooms, treating them as places worth attention. An essay about a morning depot describes light, sound, and habit, not the reliability of any service. Nothing in those pieces should be read as a review of an operator or a promise about your journey. A hall that felt calm on a Tuesday in March may feel entirely different on your Friday. We write about waiting because it is part of travel, not because we can shorten yours.

10. Illustrations are not documentation

The woodcut style illustrations on this site are artistic interpretations, not photographs or surveys. They compress a scene into two inks, and they leave out fences, curbs, and construction with cheerful abandon. Never judge a slope, a crossing, or a distance from a picture on this site. The route facts box and the article text carry the useful numbers, and even those age, as the section on accuracy explains. Enjoy the pictures as you would a masthead, which is roughly what they are.

11. Sources and third party information

The Mile notes at the end of each article name our sources in ordinary text, without links. Municipal pages, park bulletins, library collections, and posted signage supply most of what we verify. We do not control those publications, and their content remains the responsibility of their own publishers. Quotations from posted signs are transcribed as we found them, and signs change faster than plaques. If a source changes after we cite it, the change belongs to time, not to our carelessness. Readers who spot a stale citation are warmly invited to write to us.

12. Content is provided as is

All content on hayracetravel.com is provided as is and as available, without warranties of any kind. To the extent the law allows, the publisher disclaims implied warranties of accuracy, completeness, and fitness for a particular purpose. To the same extent, Hayrace Media LLC is not liable for losses arising from reliance on the site. That includes decisions about travel, timing, and routes made after reading any article here. Some jurisdictions limit such disclaimers, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Nothing in this section limits rights that consumer law grants you and does not allow to be waived.

13. How this page relates to the Terms of Use

This Disclaimer supplements the Terms of Use and is incorporated into them by reference. If this page and the Terms ever disagree, the Terms control for legal questions. The Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy describe data practices and stand beside both documents. Continuing to read the site means you accept the whole set together. Each document is written to be read by a person, not only by a lawyer.

14. Changes to this disclaimer

We may revise this page as the gazette grows or as the law shifts under it. The date at the top always names the current version, and meaningful edits are described in plain words. Significant revisions will be flagged near the top of this page for a reasonable stretch of time. A quick look after a long absence is a sensible habit for any reader. Continued use of the site after a change means the current version applies to you.

Contact about this policy

Questions about this Disclaimer reach a person, not a queue, and every letter receives an answer. Letters that identify a real hazard on a published route are treated as corrections and handled first.

• Publisher: Hayrace Media LLC, a registered Rhode Island Limited Liability Company
• Email for this policy: postbox@hayracetravel.com
• Mailing address: 50 Kennedy Plaza, Providence, RI 02903, United States
• Phone: +1 (401) 421-5836
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