I do many short rides around town for shopping, post office or a lap of 4-5 miles around the local state park that has fine views of Narragansett Bay. Sundays is a club ride of 40 -50 miles for me. These club rides could be anywhere in Rhode Island but the state is so small that with a meet-up point a 20 minute drive from home, a very large area with hundreds of miles of rural roads opens up. This keeps riding fresh and interesting. It works out that with a fairly high rural population density the area, counter-intuitively, has many roads with low traffic.