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16 ❯❯ Top 10 New England Highlights

Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Race Point at the tip of Cape Cod feels like the end of the earth.
Beyond this long, thin crook of glacial sand lies the broad Atlantic,
stretching all the way to Portugal. The Cape’s fishing fleets haul
the sweetest scallops and richest tuna; virtually every cove harbors
a hamlet founded by farmers whose grandchildren turned to the
sea. Great Beach extends for 30 miles (48 km), from Chatham to
Provincetown, comfortably accom modating the thousands of
swimmers and sunbathers who flock here during the summer.
Sandwich
1
Boardwalk
and Town Beach
Songbirds whistle as
you walk the Sandwich
Boardwalk over Great
Marsh. The gentle waves
and warm waters at
Town Beach make it
Cape Cod National Seashore
ideal for children. 4
Beaches
Hyannis
2 Beaches for swimmers, kite­flyers, surfers, and
Thanks to its
sunbathers stretch from Nauset Beach to Race
airport and two ferry Point, with its historic Life­Saving Station (above).
lines to Nantucket and
Nickerson
Martha’s Vineyard, 5 Map of Cape Cod
Hyannis is Cape Cod’s State Park 1 9
market town and Clear glacial kettle ponds 4
transportation hub. dot this wooded parkland Provincetown 6
far removed, physically Cape Cod Wellfleet
Cape Cod
3 and ecologically, Bay Eastham 7
Canal
from the Cape’s
Dug to save ships from shores. Canoe 3 Sandwich Dennis 6A Orleans
the perilous Nantucket and fish the Buzzards 6A 5
Shoals, the canal marks ponds, watch Bay 28 Barnstable 6 Chatham
the Cape’s sedate begin­ rare song­ East Hyannis South
ning (below). Bike down birds, and Falmouth 28 Yarmouth
its paths or fish for bass camp at over Woods Falmouth
and ferocious bluefish. 400 sites. Hole 0 2 8 6

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