Cape Cod Travel Guide
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Cape Cod is shaped roughly like the arm of someone flexing a bicep. It is divided into four regions from west to east or from the "shoulder" to the "hand": the Upper Cape, the Mid Cape, the Lower Cape and the Outer Cape. Each region is made up of towns and most towns include several villages. Provincetown Provincetown , often called P-town, is on the very tip of … Read Cape Cod introduction
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Provincetown
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Provincetown, one of the most well known towns on Cape Cod, offers rich cultural and artistic history as well as plenty of contemporary pleasures. The Pilgrims made their first New World landing here and the historic Mayflower Compact …
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The area is beautiful! It has clean, sun-drenched beaches. It also provides many opportunities for biking, sea kayaking, and other outdoor activities. If your goal is to spend one day in Hyannis ... more
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Introduction
'The Cape', as it's universally called, is among New England's favourite summer vacation destinations and it thrives on tourism. Vacationers come (in dribs and drabs in the off-season, and in hordes in the warmer months) to lose themselves amongst endless miles of windswept seashore.
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Provincetown A lively resort town and New England's gay mecca, painters and writers, Portuguese American fishermen and solitude seekers make up this tolerant year-round community of 3400. It also has long stretches of pristine beach, dramatic sand dunes, contemporary art and one-of-a-kind …
Facts for the Traveller
Population : 220230 Area : 1033km² Longitude / Latitude : 70.0605 / 42.0394 Currency : US Dollar (USD) Weights & Measures system : Imperial Electricity : 110V, 60
Getting there & Getting around
Getting there The Barnstable Municipal Airport, at the rotary intersection of MA 28 and MA 132, is served by a few regional carriers who offer flights to Hyannis and Barnstable. Provincetown's Municipal Airport, which is a short 4mi (7km) taxi ride from the town centre, offers daily, 25-minute, …
History
Recent History Today there are two Cape Cods: winter and summer. The winter Cape is a quiet, provincial place, inhabited mostly by retirees. The summer Cape is the same place but with better weather and lots and lots of vacationers and day-trippers; at the height of summer more than 80,000 cars …
Weather
From April all the way to November the Cape is visited, fairly often, by high pressure winds of 24 to 40kmph (15 to 25mph). During this period, the weather can change very quickly and unpredictably. Wind conditions can vary greatly from day to day and even from one side of town to the other. But despite …
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Overview of Provincetown
56 miles NE of Sandwich; 42 miles NE of Hyannis You made it all the way to the end of the Cape: one of the most interesting, rewarding spots on the eastern seaboard. Explorer Bartholomew Gosnold surely felt much the same thrill in 1602, when he and his crew happened upon a great stoare of codfysshes here …
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The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, wrote Henry Beston in his 1928 Cape Cod classic, The Outermost House, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot. This is what Cape Cod offers an increasingly …
Overview of Outer Cape
The rest of the Cape may have its civilized enticements, but it's only on the Outer Cape that the landscape and even the air feel really beachy. You can smell the seashore just over the horizon -- in fact, you can smell it everywhere you go because you're never more than a mile or two away from sand and …
Overview of Falmouth and Woods Hole
18 miles S of Sagamore; 20 miles SW of Hyannis Falmouth is a classic New England town, complete with church steeples encircling the town green and a walkable and bustling Main Street. It offers a variety of activities and summer events for vacationers, from beautiful beaches and bike paths to …
Overview of Dennis
20 miles E of Sandwich; 36 miles S of Provincetown If Dennis looks like a jigsaw puzzle piece snapped around Yarmouth, that's because it didn't break away until 1793, when the community adopted the name of Rev. Josiah Dennis, who had ministered to Yarmouth's East Parish for close to 4 decades. His …
Overview of Orleans, MA
31 miles E of Sandwich; 25 miles S of Provincetown Orleans is where the Narrow Land (the early Algonquin name for the Cape) starts to get very narrow indeed: From here on up -- or down, in paradoxical local parlance -- it's never more than a few miles wide from coast to coast, and in some spots it's as …
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