MIDDLETOWN, R.I. -- Motorists can avoid delays from the Newport Fed Thanksgiving Day Pie Run by knowing which roads to avoid between 7 and 11 a.m.
The course starts at the YMCA on Valley Road, then turns on Aquidneck Avenue to Crescent Road to Tuckerman Avenue to Purgatory Road to Sachuest Point Road.
Runners will turn around at the ticket gate on Sachuest Point Road and reverse the course, skipping Tuckerman Avenue.
Motorists are asked to use Green End Avenue. Southbound traffic on Valley Road will be detoured at Johnnycake Hill Road through the Industrial Park to John Clarke Road and then sent north on Aquidneck Avenue.
Southbound traffic on Aquidneck will also be detoured through the Industrial Park to Valley Road northbound.
Aquidneck Avenue northbound from Memorial Boulevard will be open, with police officers directing traffic along the racecourse.
Call (401) 846-1144 with questions.