Shawme Crowell State Forest, Sandwich, MA, Cape Cod Camping
Shawme Crowell State Forest might be the best
run and most convenient campground on Cape Cod.
Shawme Crowell has everything that the camper
needs.  The sites are spaced well apart,  the
location at the beginning of Cape Cod at Sandwich
gives the park access to Sandwich the museum town
and its history, nature preserves, and exquisite antique
buildings, including the oldest house on Cape Cod.
The park accommodates tenters and RV campers with
a dump station and water. (Recycling station for the
re-use of plastic, glass, paper)  No Hookups. Many
miles of bike and walking trails are within the park and
a short drive or bike ride away, you find the Cape Cod
Canal with its nearly 14-miles of flat, paved trails that
run beside the Cape Cod Canal.  
Within a few miles of Shawme Crowell State Forest, you find Scusset Beach State Reservation and its
campground. The fee for Shawme Crowell, $12 for residents of the State $15 for others, is applicable for
parking at Scusset.
Scusset Beach is a cold water beach but the boat action in the canal can provide some entertainment.  The
canal can provide some good striper fishing from the jetty and the banks and in salt water there is no need
for a license although you do need to observe length limits and bag limits.
You can walk your bike over the Bourne and Sagamore Bridges to use the full 14 miles of
Cape Cod Canal trail.
On the south side of the canal, the town of Sandwich has three salt water beaches reached by a
gravel trail from the Cape Cod Canal Visitors Center and from the boardwalk.  (Free Parking, Big
rig parking in the overflow lot next to the lobster market)
The Cape Cod Canal Bike Trail's eastern end at  the Scusset Beach State Reservation.   
Online camping reservations are available
The longest elevating center Span bridge in the country when it was built in the mid 30s The
Cape Cod Canal railroad bridge lowers for a sightseeing train . Photo at right shows elevating
center span lowered for the passage of the train.  Free parking is available on both sides, large
vehicle parking is available on the north side of the canal railroad bridge lot in Buzzards Bay.
The flat paved trail runs seven miles on one side of the canal and six and a half on the other. You
can walk your bike over the Sagamore and Bourne bridges to bike both sides of the canal in one
day, a total of about 14 miles..
Info for travelers flying in to Boston to rent a  vehicle for a trip to Cape Cod
Shawme
Crowell State
Forest is not
wilderness
camping but it
has spacious
and woodsy
sites in a pine
forest.
The town center
of   Sandwich
with its  
museums and
the bike trails
of the Cape Cod
Canal are
nearby.
Shawme Crowell State Forest Sandwich, MA Cape Cod
Shawme-Crowell State Forest in Sandwich is at the
northern edge of  Cape Cod, near the Cape Cod Canal
and Scusset Beach state Reservation campgrounds
Shawme-Crowell State Forest in Sandwich is  near the Cape cod Canal bike trails
Shawme Crowell State Forest, Sandwich, MA, on Cape Cod offers
camping in spacious and woodsy sites within a pine forest with
hiking and biking trails. Nearby find Sandwich Town center with
museums and the bike trails of the Cape Cod Canal.
Shawme-Crowell State Forest, Sandwich, MA, offers Cape Cod Camping in spacious and woodsy
sites in a pine forest near the Cape Cod Canal and its fishing and 14 miles of bike trail.  The town
center of Sandwich offers museums of history and the Sandwich Glass Museum,  Bike to the Cape
Cod Canal bike trails nearby.
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