From the Salt Pond Visitors Center,
(Free Parking) you can walk or bike ride
across the highway to The “Cape Cod Rail Trail”,
a former railroad bed that is now a paved bicycle
path one is wheel chair and baby carriage
accessible. This trail connects with others to offer
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 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) you can walk or bike ride
across the highway to The “Cape Cod Rail Trail”,
a former railroad bed that is now a paved bicycle
path one is wheel chair and baby carriage
accessible. This trail connects with others to offer
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 and then through Orleans’s
Rock Harbor and on to Eastham and The Cape
Cod National Sea Shore’s Salt Pond Visitors
Center.
From the end of the Rail Trail at Lecount Hollow, a short
drive towards Provincetown will bring you to the to the
Provincelands dunes trail system with paved paths
through the dunes and along the beach at the very tip of
Cape Cod.
drive towards Provincetown will bring you to the to the
Provincelands dunes trail system with paved paths
through the dunes and along the beach at the very tip of
Cape Cod.
You can walk the same trails that writer and naturalist, Henry David Thoreau
visited on the Cape in 1849, when he wrote detailed descriptions of the dunes
and the peach on the ocean side at coast guard beach. The area is now a
preserve, The Cape Cod National Sea Shore and has not changed a great
deal since Thoreau's visit. 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 continues to reclaim the Nauset-
side cliffs and dunes along the Coast Guard Beach as it has since Thoreau’s
time. The breach that he walked, over twenty-five miles of unobstructed beach
from Eastham to far distant Provincetown’s Race Point, still exist, protected
from development as the National Seashore.
visited on the Cape in 1849, when he wrote detailed descriptions of the dunes
and the peach on the ocean side at coast guard beach. The area is now a
preserve, The Cape Cod National Sea Shore and has not changed a great
deal since Thoreau's visit. 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 continues to reclaim the Nauset-
side cliffs and dunes along the Coast Guard Beach as it has since Thoreau’s
time. The breach that he walked, over twenty-five miles of unobstructed beach
from Eastham to far distant Provincetown’s Race Point, still exist, protected
from development as the National Seashore.
Coast Guard Beach
Highland Light
Whales feed off shore at the tip of Cape Cod.
While walking on the Provincelands Dunes Trail, a
paved walking and biking trail on Lower or Outer
Cape Cod that starts at Herring Cove Beach, you
can climb a high dune and at times get a view of
their spouting. Parking at the east side of the
Herring Cove Beach lot puts you at the head of the
trail.
While walking on the Provincelands Dunes Trail, a
paved walking and biking trail on Lower or Outer
Cape Cod that starts at Herring Cove Beach, you
can climb a high dune and at times get a view of
their spouting. Parking at the east side of the
Herring Cove Beach lot puts you at the head of the
trail.
Cape Cod Walking Trails and Bike Trails
Herring Cove Beach,
The Provinceland Dunes
trail starts at Herring Cove
The Provinceland Dunes
trail starts at Herring Cove
Herring Cove Beach
Ice cream stop Cape Cod
Bike Trail,l Brewster
Bike Trail,l Brewster
Nauset Beach, Orleans
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Johnathan Young
Windmill, Orleans
Windmill, Orleans
| Paved Walking and Biking Trails through The Cape Cod Marshes and Dunes |
Cape Cod Nature Trails For Hiking
and Biking Wheel Chair and baby
Carriage access
and Biking Wheel Chair and baby
Carriage access
Bike and Walking Trails On Outer Cape Cod
Mid and Lower Cape Cod Walking Trails and
Bicycle Trails Walk or Bike on Paved Trails to
the Beaches of Cape Cod
Bicycle Trails Walk or Bike on Paved Trails to
the Beaches of Cape Cod
Walking Cape Cod's Dunes and Marshes
Cape Cod
Walking Trails
Walking Trails
Another good base to walk and bike from is the Salt
Pond Visitors Center on the main road Rt 6 where
there is ample free parking. This will put you within
a one and a half mile walk or bike ride through
woods and marsh to Coast Guard Beach.
Once at Coast Guard Beach, you can walk the trails
or beach to visit the location of Henry Beston’s, The
Outermost House, now just an isolated stretch of
beach after a storm in 1978 took the house.
Pond Visitors Center on the main road Rt 6 where
there is ample free parking. This will put you within
a one and a half mile walk or bike ride through
woods and marsh to Coast Guard Beach.
Once at Coast Guard Beach, you can walk the trails
or beach to visit the location of Henry Beston’s, The
Outermost House, now just an isolated stretch of
beach after a storm in 1978 took the house.
The Salt Pond Visitors Center offers other
walking trails
walking trails
a walking trail starts at the edge of Salt Pond at
the rear of the Visitors Center and runs for a mile
through woods and marsh
the rear of the Visitors Center and runs for a mile
through woods and marsh
First Encounter Beach
in Eastham
in Eastham
The view from Coast Guard Beach. You can walk the
mile and a half out on the Dunes where Henry Beston
had his two-room house while he wrote "The Outermost
House"
mile and a half out on the Dunes where Henry Beston
had his two-room house while he wrote "The Outermost
House"
Rock Harbor Orleans,
on the Rail Trail
on the Rail Trail
Skaket Beach
Many activities such as kayaking, canoing,
biking and walking start at the Salt Pond Visitors
Center.
biking and walking start at the Salt Pond Visitors
Center.
In Brewster on Route 6 A
stands the Old Higgins Farm
Windmill within the Drummer
Boy Park , an area with
ample free parking. Check
their antique flea markets.
stands the Old Higgins Farm
Windmill within the Drummer
Boy Park , an area with
ample free parking. Check
their antique flea markets.
The Eastham windmill , built in 1680 by Thomas
Paine is the oldest on the Cape and is not far from
the rail trail in Eastham, within a two mile walk or
bike ride from the Salt Pond Visitors Center
Paine is the oldest on the Cape and is not far from
the rail trail in Eastham, within a two mile walk or
bike ride from the Salt Pond Visitors Center
Bike rental are
available just across
the street from the
Salt Pond Visitors
Center
available just across
the street from the
Salt Pond Visitors
Center
Next door to the bike rental find a
lobster restaurant with ice
cream just across from the Salt
Pond Visitors Center right on
the Rail trail
lobster restaurant with ice
cream just across from the Salt
Pond Visitors Center right on
the Rail trail
Eastham Windmill
Sunset at Rock Harbor in Orleans, one of the stops on the bike trail called the Rail Trail
The Nauset trail, a three mile round
trip walking or bike trail from the Salt
Pond Visitors Center to Coast Guard
Beach
trip walking or bike trail from the Salt
Pond Visitors Center to Coast Guard
Beach
Pick out your own lobster at the Shanty
Fort Hill Bay Views. Drive
to the lot overlooking the
marshes and walking trails
to the lot overlooking the
marshes and walking trails
Fort Hill,
Captain Penneman House
Captain Penneman House
Herring Cove Beach
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Cape Cod Walking Trails and Bike Trails are
rail trails that make biking Cape Cod safe and
fun for families. The trails are through dunes
and pine forest on old rail beds that are flat and
off-road.
rail trails that make biking Cape Cod safe and
fun for families. The trails are through dunes
and pine forest on old rail beds that are flat and
off-road.
Cape Cod Walking Trails and Bike Trails are
through woods and dune.
through woods and dune.
Cape Cod Walking Trails near the Salt Pond
Visitors Center are through woods and dune.
Visitors Center are through woods and dune.
Cape Cod Walking Trails and Bike Trails to
Coast Guard Beach go through pine woods from
the Salt Pond Visitors Center
Coast Guard Beach go through pine woods from
the Salt Pond Visitors Center
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Plantation trails through the gardens
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