Parking for Bike Trails

On Outer Cape Cod as the dunes area is called, the
Provinceland Dunes bike trail goes south near Race
Point Lighthouse, towards the small  airport.
The paved bike trail  runs parallel to the beach.
The Rail Trail extends from Orleans to Provincetown.   
Drive back south on
Route 6 to Truro and find the
Head Of The Meadows Trail, a paved trail through
woods and meadows with
Free parking at the trail head
lot.
For those that want to bike to the warm water beaches on the protected side of the Lower Cape, two
quiet beaches are a little more than a mile from the Rail Trail.  After
parking at Nickerson State Park or
Rock Harbor you can follow Skaket Beach Road in Orleans to the end and find a quarter-mile granular
sand beach .  This is a
paid lot for autos in season during the day.
Paid Parking at Coast
Guard Beach.  
Free
parking
and access
to coast Guard Beach  
from the
Salt Pond
Visitors Center
Free Parking at a
small lot near Highland
Light
Free Parking is available at many bike trail sites on Cape Cod's
Outer Cape
.   

Head of The Meadows Trail, is a woods and dunes trail in Truro
with Free Parking.

Free Parking at the Salt Pond Visitors Center in Eastham leads to
The
Nauset Trail,  a woods and estuarine trail that connects the Cape
Cod Rail Trail
to Coast Guard Beach on the high dunes of the
Atlantic side on Outer Cape.

There is paid parking for the Provincelands Dune Trail , pictured at
right, a paved trail with few hills through a section of the outer Cape
near the village of Provincetown, but otherwise much of the parking
on the bike trails is free.  
On this mile or so of low dune and beach with the outlet of Herring Brook at the end,  you will find few
people at First Encounter Beach even on a summer weekend.
Herring Cove Beach
Eastham Windmill
Ice cream stop Cape
Cod Bike Trail
Nauset Beach, Orleans
Paid Parking in season
Free parking in small
lots on the Rail Trail
near the Eastham
Windmill
Johnathan Young
Windmill, Orleans
Cape Cod Bike Trails
Free Parking
Falmouth for the
Shining Sea bike Trail
Cape Cod's Provincelands
Dunes Trail on Outer
Cape Cod
Paid Parking  at Herring
Cove Beach
Parking for Outer Cape Cod Dunes Trails
Herring Cove
Beach, Paid parking
for beach and bike
trail through the
dunes
Further south you come to The  Cape Cod Rail
Trail
in Wellfleet at Lecount Hollow. Free
Parking
at the trail head for the Rail Trail opens
this former railroad bed now turned bicycle path to
walking wheelchair, carriage, and biking.  This trail
connects to the
Salt Pond Visitors Center in
Eastham
and to the Nauset Trail, a system that
winds through Beach forest and high dunes and
leads to Coast Guard Beach on the outer dunes .
The Cape Cod Rail Trail is a largely off-road trail
that travels for over 25 miles through Brewster's
Nickerson State Park, (
Free Parking at the park
entrance}
and then through Orleans’s Rock
Harbor , (Free Parking, small Lot) and on to
Eastham and The Cape Cod National Sea Shore’
s Salt Pond Visitors Center.  At the center, you
can find free parking and good maps of the trails
Highland Light
Small free lot
A favorite local pastime is to enter the creek on the out-going tide and let the current carry you out along the
beach.  The water is shallow for over a half mile, with the flats totally uncovering at low tide.  These sand flats
produce the delicious white steamer clams found at Young’s Fish Market in Rock Harbor.   
Further North along the Rail Trail  you will come to Eastham and find another secluded beach, First
Encounter Beach.
First Encounter
Beach Eastham,
Paid Parking in
season
Drummer Boy
Park Brewster
Free Parking
Route 6A
Capt. Penneman
House, Free
parking at the end
of the road
overlooking
Orleans inlet
Skaket Beach, a
warm water beach
with little wave action
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Getting to Cape Cod: Boston is the nearest large city to Cape Cod.
Air service reaches Boston from other major hubs and cities.
Rental cars are available at the airport.
From Boston take
Route 93 to Route 3 and after 60 miles, cross the Cape Cod Canal. Continue on
Route 6 for all locations on Cape Cod or go to Route 6A for the slower scenic route through the villages.
Routes
6 and 6A join in Orleans and go to the tip of Cape Cod.
Several small
commuter airlines serve Hyannis Airport and Provincetown Airport on Cape Cod from
Boston, Providence, and New Bedford.   Cape Air, US Airways Express, and Linear Air (Hanscom Field
Bedford Ma)
Bus service is available from Boston and from Logan Airport. Plymouth and Brockton, Logan Direct
serves Hyannis
Bonanza Bus Lines serves Bourne, Falmouth, and the Wood's Hole ferry from Logan Airport
Passenger Boats  leave daily from Boston to the tip of Cape Cod (May -September)   at Provincetown.
Bicycles can go aboard.
A fast cat boat and a slower conventional passenger boat make trips from Boston. Bicycles permitted
A
passenger boat makes a daily run from Plymouth, MA to Provincetown.
Fifteen large towns and many small villages make up Cape Cod.

Upper Cape: Along the Cape Cod Canal, the towns of Bourne and Sandwich define the northern limit of
the upper Cape  
Mid Cape includes Barnstable, Yarmouth and Dennis. The mid Cap is where you will find Hyannis Airport
Lower Cape includes Brewster, Harwich , and Chatham.
Outer Cape starts in Orleans and includes Eastham, Wellfleet, Truro, and Provincetown.
Cape Cod Parking for the Bike Trails and Rail Trails is
available at many bike trail sites.
Free Parking is offered at the Salt Pond Visitors Center in
Eastham for the Nauset Trail to the Cape Cod Rail Trail and
to Coast Guard Beach
Cape Cod Parking,
Bike Trails, Rail Trails
Parking:
Free
Parking at The Salt
Pond Visitors Center
and access to the Rail
Trail
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Parking for Bike Trips On Outer Cape Cod
Cape Cod is still wild and undeveloped on the side
exposed to the Atlantic Ocean.  It is preserved by the
Cape Cod National Seashore National Park and can
be a wonderful experience by bike.
Free parking is
offered at the Visitors Center  and from there a bike trail
leads to Coast Guard Beach.  In the other direction, a
road leads to the
Cape Cod Rail Trail.

There is a paved trail through the dunes, some very
high, that you can see from
Route 6 as you drive north
to Provincetown and
Herring Cove Beach at the tip of
Cape Cod.  
Paid parking at Herring Cove Beach puts you at the
head of the trail to your right as you face the ocean.  
As you drive towards Herring Cove Beach look on  your
left for metered parking for bike or walking access to
Provincetown village and the Pilgrim Monument.