Cape Cod Biking takes you through
some Unspoiled and naturally beautiful
landscapes and through tiny villages where
the people still cherish their seafaring
heritage.

The villages along the trails offer bike rental
shops, lighthouses, antique windmills, nature
preserves, golf courses, art and history
museums, a winery, art colonies, an airport
with sightseeing flights, and campgrounds.

There is no better way to experience the
freedom of Cape Cod than on a bicycle.
On the Outer Cape (lower),for instance, you
can  peddle your way between Coast Guard
Beach, Skaket Beach, and New Encounter
Beach, on mostly flat paved trails with a few
sections of on-road biking. Parking at the Salt
Pond Visitor's Center is free.

A drive north towards Provincetown brings you
to Highland light and the Province Lands
beaches and Dunes trails..

The Cape Cod Rail Trail, the former railroad
bed now turned bicycle path, and the Nauset
Dunes Trail, (some hills) a system that winds
through Beach forest and high dunes near
Provincetown/Race Point, together contain
over fifty miles of off-road bicycle and walking
trails.(wheel chair and stroller access)

The Cape Cod Rail Trail is a largely off-road
trail that travels for over 25 miles through
Brewster's Nickerson State Park and then
through Orleans’s Rock Harbor and on to
Eastham and The Cape Cod National Sea
Shore’s Salt Pond Visitors Center.  At the
center, you can continue to the windward
Nauset Shore(one hill) by bike or head north
to the end of the trail at Lecount Hollow in the
town of Wellfleet.  At several places along the
way, there is ample parking, if you chooses
not to travel the entire 25 miles by bicycle.  

From the end of the Rail Trail at Lecount Hollow, a
short drive towards Provincetown will bring you to
the Nauset Dunes bike trail system, with its paved
bicycle paths through the dunes and along the beach
at the very tip of Cape Cod. (some small hills)

If you want to try some seafood on your bike trip,the
Cape Cod Rail Trail goes through Rock Harbor in
Orleans, the small port on The Cape Cod Bay side    
At Captain Cass’s Rock Harbor Seafood
Restaurant and Young’s Fish Market you can get
local steamer clams and fresh cooked Lobster to go
or have them in at Capt Cass.
Rock Harbor’s sport fishing fleet comes in twice a
day with catches of Striped Bass, Bluefish,
Mackerel, Tuna, Sharks, Flounder, Fluke and Cod,
an exciting break in the bike trip.

Writer and naturalist, Henry David Thoreau, passed
through the Cape in 1849, writing detailed  
descriptions of the lower Cape's treeless solitude.  
To this day, a barren starkness prevails on the high
Nauset dunes, just as Thoreau described it in his
journal, Cape Cod.  (Click Here for Text, Cape
Cod)   The relentless sea has reclaimed several
hundred feet of the Nauset-side cliffs and dunes
since Thoreau’s time, but one can still walk as
Thoreau did, on over twenty-five miles of
unobstructed beach, from Eastham to far distant
Provincetown’s Race Point.
For those that want to bike to a beach and return to
the leisurely childhood beach days of warm water
and small waves, two quiet beaches are a little more
than a mile from the Cape Cod Rail Trail.  Follow
Skaket Beach Road in Orleans to the end and find a
quarter-mile granular sand beach bordered by rose
dunes and American Beach Grass with a carpet of
Eelgrass at the tide line.  To the right, as you face the
ocean, you can find privacy in the grass and dune
area near the stream outlet.  
The water is shallow for 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, this one
named for the less than cordial first meeting in 1620,
between the Pilgrims of Miles Standish and the
resident native population: First Encounter Beach.
Coast Guard Beach
Highland Light
On the paved trails built where the
old railroads once traveled, you can  
ride your bike in the natural
landscapes of  Cape Cod
Bike Trails on Cape Cod,Cape Cod Rail Trails
Cape Cod Dune Trails
On a mile or so of low dune Marsh Grass and beach
with the outlet of Herring Brook at the end,  Plovers,
Herons, Terns, Red Tailed Hawk and many other
shore and marsh birds soar and flit over the Heather
and Beach Grass.  Tidal pools are alive with the
drama of Hermit Crabs, snails, Fiddler Crabs, and
tiny fish scurrying through their daily routine.  Finding a
private place to read, write, or just plain snooze
should be no problem here even on a summer
weekend.
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Eastham Windmill
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The network of bike trails includes Herring Cove Beach
on the tip of Cape Cod.  Many folks snooze in beach
chairs while lazily surf fishing for the lunker Striped
Bass that feed along the shore.  From the parking lot
adjacent to the beach, the bike trail extends into the
Provinceland Dunes, connecting with the Beach Forest
Trail and The Race Point Bike Trail.  Both of these
trailheads have large public parking lots.
This unspoiled land changes with the winds that
restlessly rearrange the hummocks and tufts as if
preparing each day for special guests.  The elemental
forces of nature in this raw land are never far from view.
No better way to see all than on a bicycle.
Johnathan Young
Windmill, Orleans
Eastham Windmill
Bicycle on Paved Bike
Trails to the Beaches of
Cape Cod
Bike Trails onOuter Cape Cod
Cape Cod
Bike Trails
Cape Cod Bike Trails, be it  Mountain Bike
or Trail Bike,  baby stroller or wheel chair  
The Cape Cod Rail Trails deliver safe
family  fun
Cape Cod
Biking

Bike Trails on Cape Cod
Cape Cod Rail Trails
Cape Cod Biking is a great way to spend a vacation or a weekend staycation. Safe
biking for the family is possible on the Bike Trails of Cape Cod because they are
flat for the most part and off-road.
Cape Cod weather is pleasant from May to October for outdoor(weather) activities.
Vacation rentals for a weekend ,week, or the season are available at many places,
some at resorts on the waterfront, others on fresh water ponds, and others in the
small villages near the Cape Beaches.
Cape Cod summer rentals by the weekend, the week, or the season offer houses,
cottages by the shore, B&Bs in the villages, historic inns, and resort packages in the
all inclusive resorts that put the biking and all the attractions nearby.
Golf Packages are popular on the Cape where many fine courses offer nearly
all-season golf at all inclusive resorts that also offer family attractions nearby to
keep everyone entertained.
Cape Cod summer rentals offer weekly rentals  ,weekend, or seasonal that are near the
dunes and located near the bike trails.
The Cape Cod Rail Trails, Dunes trails, and Shining Seas Bikeway  make the Cape a
great weekend or summer family vacation place because the flat, paved, bike trails
through the dunes and forests provide off-road  Safe Biking. Carriages and wheelchairs
can also use these nearly flat(no hills) trails; they are great for a safe family vacation.