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NEED TO KNOW adm (beach and parking); to take advantage of its
MAP H4 www.nps.gov/caco rich array of mini-golf
Cape Cod Welcome Center: Nickerson State Park: Rte courses, ice-cream stands,
Jct Rtes 6 and 132, 6A, Brewster; 508 896 3491, and a variety of other
Hyannis; 508 362 3225; 877 422 6762 (camping engaging diversions
open daily during summer reservations); open daily; meant to occupy the
fee for camping; www. “are-we-there-yet?” set.
Cape Cod National mass.gov/eea/agencies/dcr
Seashore Salt Pond Visitor • Kream ’N Kone (Rtes
Center: Rte 6, Eastham; • For visitors who are 28 and 134, West Dennis;
508 255 3421; open daily traveling in the region 508 394 0808) serves its
Sep–Jun: 9am–4:30pm; with young children, it is a customers some of Cape
Jul–Aug: 9am–5pm; good idea to drive Rte 28 Cod’s best fried seafood.
King’s Highway
Chatham
6 7
An iconic
More shady lane than highway, Route 6A
lighthouse marks the strings together the salty Cape Cod Bay villages
dangerous shoals off filled with the mansions of Victorian sea captains,
Chatham’s astounding antiques dealers, and the studios of potters,
and ever-shifting barrier glassblowers, and other artisans.
beaches, where seabirds
Cape Cod Rail
flock and seals bask in 8
the winter sun. Home to Trail
the Cape’s main tuna This is one of the most
fleet, Chatham is also invigorating ways to see
a yachtsmen’s harbor. Cape Cod. The 22-mile
(35-km) Rail Trail begins
in Dennis, crosses fields
and forest, skirts a
quaint fishing harbor,
Provincetown 6 and then follows dune
Cape Cod Wellfleet cliffs into Wellfleet.
Falmouth and
Bay 0
Provincetown
Eastham 9 Woods Hole
Sandwich Orleans It’s always party Marine researchers
6A Dennis 6A time in P-town (left). dominate tiny Woods
Buzzards 28 6 Chatham
Bay Barnstable The Cape’s most colorful Hole (above), a harbor of
Hyannis South community is at once a professors who look like
East
Falmouth 28 Yarmouth Portuguese-American pirates. Falmouth proper
Woods Falmouth fishing village, a major is a quintessential New
Hole art colony, and a leading England town of neat
gay resort destination. houses and tall churches.

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