Cape Cod bike trails on the outer Cape run
through woods and dunes that are unspoiled
and naturally beautiful . Cape Cod is not
primitive, however, and although the villages
along the way might cherish simplicity and their
seafaring heritage, they also offer the bicycle
traveler many modern conveniences like bike
rental shops, lighthouse and windmill
museums, nature preserves, golf courses, art
and history museums, a winery, art colonies, an
airport with sightseeing flights, and
campgrounds       
All the attractions on the Outer Cape are just a
short walk or drive from the Bike trails that run
near the beach where, in 1849, Thoreau
walked.   
There is no better way to experience this
freedom than on a bicycle.  In the sea-bound
refuge called the Outer Cape (lower)you can
spread on a little sun block, pack a copy of
Henry Beston’s, The Outermost House, and  
peddle your way between Coast Guard Beach,
Highland Light and the Province lands Trail to
the beaches.

The “Cape Cod Rail Trail”, a former railroad
bed now turned bicycle path, and the Nauset
Dune Trail, a system that winds through Beach
forest and high dunes, together contain over
fifty miles of off-road bicycle and walking trails.  
The Cape Cod Rail Trail is a largely off-road
trail that travels for over 25 miles through
Brewster's Nickerson State Park (Camping, RV
sites) and then through Orleans’s Rock Harbor
and on to Eastham and The Cape Cod
National Sea Shore’s Salt Pond Visitors
Center.  (Free Parking) At the center, you can
bike to the windward Nauset Shore at coast
Guard Beach or continue on the Rail trail and
reach the end at Lecount Hollow in the town of
Wellfleet.  At several places along the way,
there is ample parking, if one chooses not to
travel the entire 25 miles by bicycle.  
From the end of the Bike 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.

Try some seafood on your journey at Rock Harbor,
the small port right on the bike trail on The Cape
Cod Bay side or inner crook of the elbow of Cape
Cod.    Captain Cass’s Rock Harbor Seafood
Restaurant and Young’s Fish Market, dine in or
get local steamer clams and fresh cooked Lobster
to go.
Rock Harbor’s sport fishing fleet comes in twice a
day with catches of Striped Bass, Bluefish,
Mackerel, Tuna, Sharks, Flounder, Fluke and Cod.

Writer Henry David Thoreau, passed through the
Cape in 1849, writing detailed  descriptions of
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.

Cape cod dune trails for biking run parallel to this
shore.
For those that want warm water and small waves,
two quiet beaches are a little more than a mile from
the Cape Cod bike trail called the Rail Trail.  Follow
Skaket Beach Road in Orleans to the end and find
a quarter-mile granular sand beach.  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.  

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
From the paved trail you can climb a
high dune and get a view of spouting
whales as you ride your bike in the
natural landscapes of  Cape Cod

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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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Herring Cove Beach
Eastham Windmill
Herring Cove Beach
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Nauset Beach, Orleans
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Cape Cod Bike trails lead to Herring Cove Beach on the
tip of Cape Cod where 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 and walking trail
extends into the Provinceland Dunes, connecting with
the Beach Forest Trail and The Race Point Trail.  Both
of these trail heads 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 bike.
Johnathan Young
Windmill, Orleans
Eastham Windmill
A Cape Cod Vacation of Biking
on Paved Bike Trails through
The Cape Cod Dunes
Lower Cape Cod Bike  Trails
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Vacation
Mountain Bike or Trail Bike,  Bike Tour or
Self Guided, Bicycling on Cape Cod Rail
Trails and dune trails makes biking safe
and fun for the family
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Cape Cod is a summer vacation place, pleasant from May to October for outdoor(weather)
activities and mild year round allowing winter golf at some courses..
Cape Cod Vacation rentals (Link)are available at many resorts on the waterfront and in
the villages located near or on the Cape beaches or on the shores of freshwater ponds.
The Cape's summer rentals offer weekly rentals  weekend rentals, or seasonal rentals that
are near the dunes and located near the bike trails.
The Cape Cod Rail Trail, Dunes trails and Shining Sea Trails  make the Cape a great
weekend or summer family vacation place because the paved bike trails through the dunes
and forests provide off-road, safe biking.
Carriages and wheel chairs are safely used on these biking and walking trails.
Cape Cod summer rentals by the weekend, the week, or the seasonal rentals 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..