Tourism Information We welcome you to browse through our information geared especially for visitors to our city by the sea. We are centrally located 15 miles from Providence and Newport, Rhode Island. We are 60 miles from Boston and 35 miles from Cape Cod. You will find our hotels and guest houses very reasonably priced. Our many attractions, famous ethnic restaurants and factory outlet shopping have been popular with tourists for many years. We especially invite you to visit during one of our summer festivals. This year Fall River Celebrates America will bring in many top bands from August 7th to the 9th. Please visit the Links/Documents section of the tourism website for links to the websites of many of our popular tourist attractions. On those websites you will find more information about the attraction or attractions that you wish to visit including contact information such as telephone numbers and e-mail addresses. You may contact the individual attractions directly in order to request their brochures or for other information pertaining to their attraction.