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Cape Cod National Seashore, Salt Pond, 50th Anniversary
The 44,600-acre Cape Cod National Seashore is a natural wonderland of dunes, cliffs, marshes, woodlands and sandy beaches. Get oriented at the Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham. Park rangers offer maps, nature programs and advice on hiking trails.
Cape Cod Bike Trails
One of the most enjoyable ways to see and experience the beauty of Cape Cod is on two wheels – on a bike! Cape Cod offers over 60 miles of breath-taking scenic trails for riders of all levels. Go places roads just won’t take you. Get an up-close look at nature in its purest form. All while traveling at your own pace with family, friends and fellow bike riders.
Cape Cod Canal Bike Paths
Before you even cross the bridge, there’s the Cape Cod Canal Bikeway offering over 7 miles of trails on BOTH sides of the mighty Cape Cod Canal. It’s a beautiful setting offering awe-inspiring views of the towering Bourne and Sagamore bridges and the endless boat traffic on the canal. Complete your ride in Sagamore and you’ll be steps away from Scusset Beach and the mouth of Cape Cod Bay at Scusset Harbor.
Shining Sea Bikeway
Another great option is Falmouth’s Shining Sea Bikeway. The northern end of this 11 mile bikeway is in North Falmouth. Hug the entire coast past Sippewissett Marsh, through nearby Falmouth Center, past ponds, Vineyard Sound beaches and Little Harbor. The southern end of the bikeway takes you right to the Steamship Authority parking lot in the charming village of Woods Hole.
Cape Cod Rail Trail
The longest ride on the Cape is the Cape Cod Trail Rail. This 22 mile trail follows the former railroad right-of-way through the towns of Dennis, Harwich, Brewster, Orleans, Eastham and Wellfleet. This popular trail passes many local points of interest and several lakes offering many opportunities to get off the trail and visit a beach, picnic or grab an ice cream cone.
Cape Cod Nickerson State Park Bike Path
While in the Brewster area, you might want to head over to Nickerson State Park for a hilly, yet very scenic network of dedicated bike trails. This enjoyable 8 mile ride takes you through beautiful pine and fir tree forests and around ponds, lakes and bogs. It’s a great opportunity to see a unique coastal woodlands ecosystem.
Nauset Marsh Trail
Equally impressive is the Nauset Marsh Trail located in the National Seashore. This 3 mile round trip begins at Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham. Along the way you’ll enjoy large cedar, pine and oak forests and see panoramic views of the Atlantic Ocean on your way to Coast Guard Beach.
Province Lands Trail
And last, but not least is the 7-1/4 mile Province Lands Trail. This hilly paved loop starts at the Province Lands visitor center in Provincetown and traverses much of the Province Lands’ 4,000 acres. Enjoy breathtaking marshland, endless dunes and water views along the way. A 2 mile trail extension will take you to Herring Beach, Race Point Beach and Bennet Pond.
So, the next time you set out to explore Cape Cod…consider doing it on two wheels. You might just find it to be “a most enjoyable” way to travel.
Natalia Bonfini at the Salt Pond Visitor's Center, Eastham
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A Journey Through the Cape Cod National Seashore
A meditation on the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Cape Cod National Seashore.
This film is a companion to my solo photo exhibit of 56 framed images on display at Eastham, Cape Cod's Salt Pond Visitor Center. The photos are also featured in the book The Cape Cod National Seashore: A Photographic Adventure & Guide now at Amazon.
Directed and Edited by Christopher Seufert of Mooncusser Films
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Cape Cod National Seashore
Over 40,000 beautiful acres of protected beach and dunes, stretching from Chatham to Provincetown.
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7th Annual Massachusetts Walking Tour Promo
Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards step out for the 7th
Annual Massachusetts Walking Tour Free Community
Concerts along the Cape Cod Rail Trail and South Coast
Bikeway
With the support of the Massachusetts Cultural Council LCC grant program and donors to the group's Go
Fund Me campaign, local musicians Mark Mandeville and Raianne Richards will once again traverse
Massachusetts on foot for their 7th Annual Massachusetts Walking Tour. The tour will run June 12 June 28
starting in Truro and landing in Swansea covering over 100 miles. As part of the National Park Service
Healthy Parks Healthy People initiative and the MA Libraries Get Moving Summer Reading program, the
public is encouraged to join in the daily hikes and to walk or bike to the events with all routes available for
PDF download at masswalkingtour.org.
Stops along Cape Cod include the Highland House Museum in Truro, Salt Pond Visitors Center of Cape
Cod National Seashore in Eastham, Wellfleet Public Library, Nickerson State Park, Cape Conservatory in
West Barnstable, ShawmeCrowell State Forest in Sandwich, Myles Standish State Forest Centennial
Celebration in Carver. As well as stops along the South Coast Bikeway (southcoastbikeway.com)
including the First Congregational Church in Wareham, Island Wharf Bandstand in Marion, Mattapoisett
Congregational Church, Millicent Library Auditorium in Fairhaven, Dartmouth YMCA, New Bedford Art
Museum/Artworks! and UMASS Dartmouth Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Fall River and the
Swansea Public Library with more to come.
The concert tour features the music of Mandeville and Richards as well as Berklee College of Music alumni
Amy Alvey and Mark Kilianski (Boston based duo Hoot and Holler) with arrangements on guitar, banjo,
harmonica, tin whistle, ukulele and fiddle accompanied by a brief talk on the philosophy behind the Walking
Tour. After each day's hike the troupe will perform free community concerts in towns along the Cape Cod
Rail Trail, Myles Standish State Forest and towns along the South Coast Bikeway. Each 2 hour program will
include local musicians and artists from each town while promoting communitybased cultural organizations
and local support for the arts. Posters for the events are hand drawn and designed by visual artist and
musician Dan Blakeslee.
The Massachusetts Walking Tour sets forth on a grass roots level to organize local artists together with
community basedorganizations such as land conservation groups, hikers, nature lovers musicians, artists
and local cultural councils statewide – these concerts are conducted in outright support for
communitybased arts events sponsored on the local level.
For a full list of concert dates, day by day hiking routes, to make donations, or for more information about the
7th Annual Massachusetts Walking Tour, visit masswalkingtour.org
For peace and quiet,the Cape Cod National Seashore is hard t
If you crave a quiet place, there is a sanctuary not far away.
In its November/December issue, AARP The Magazine lists five places in the United States where people can find tranquility in this noisy and sometimes intrusive society. One of them is Marconi Beach at the Cape Cod National Seashore.
The others are The Grand Canyon, The Everglades, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and Voyageurs National Park in Minnesota.
If you're looking for an outing with a sense of solitude, the Cape Cod National Seashore has lots of possibilities.
In addition to Marconi Beach and Marconi Station, I've found a few other favorite escapes in Eastham.
The Marconi sites are east of Route 6 in South Wellfleet, 6 miles north of the Salt Pond Visitors Center.
The Blizzard of '78: High Tides Close in on Cape Cod
Cape Cod historian Noel Beyle was all over Eastham during the storm known as The Blizzard of '78 on Feb. 6-7, 1978, and saw the storm from every possible angle. Here he explains how the tides were at some of their highest levels ever.
This interview with Beyle and many others will be part of a special talk about the demise of Henry Beston's Outermost House at 2:45 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2008 at the Cape Cod National Seashore's Salt Pond Visitors Center in Eastham on Cape Cod.
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Days of the dolphin on Cape Cod
On today's CapeCast: We hit the flats to get an overview of the unprecedented dolphin stranding season now unfolding on Cape Cod, with up-to-date stats and life and death video.
The Outermost VW: Surviving the Blizzard of '78 tides
From the Henry Beston Society (henrybeston.org):
Longtime Cape Cod radio newsman Bob Seay was one of the people on hand at Coast Guard Beach in Eastham, Mass. on Cape Cod on Feb. 6-7, 1978, when the famous storm known as the Blizzard of '78 barreled across Cape Cod.
Seay was there when Henry Beston's Outermost House, along with several other beach cottages, were swept off their foundations and into the marsh, then out to sea. In this video, Seay talks about how a few young people were also victimized by the storm when they drove their Volkswagen Beetle down to the beach and found themselves caught up in the raging tide. What happened after that is quite amazing.
More of the interview with Seay, as told to Don Wilding of the Henry Beston Society, will be part of a special talk to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the storm at 2:45 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2008 at the Cape Cod National Seashore's Salt Pond Visitors Center in Eastham, Mass.
Visit henrybeston.org for more information.
GEOSC10 Unit 8 Lecture: Tearing Down Mountains, Coasts and Sea-level Changes
Geology of the National Parks, Unit 8 Lecture, Tearing Down Mountains ( Lecture presented by Dr. Richard Alley of the Penn State University. Created in partnership with the John A Dutton e-education Institute (e-education.psu.edu).
The Blizzard of '78 at Nauset Light
Former Cape Cod National Seashore ranger Jack Clarke recalls the first night of the storm now known as The Blizzard of '78 on Feb. 6, 1978, when he was staying at the lightkeeper's house at Nauset Light in Eastham on Cape Cod. Clarke would later witness the destruction of Henry Beston's Outermost House, which will be featured in a special talk by Beston Society founder Don Wilding at the CCNS Salt Pond Visitors Center in Eastham on Feb. 16, 2008 at 2:45 p.m. Visit henrybeston.org for more information.
Trailer for 'Blizzard of '78 - Outermost House swept away
From the Henry Beston Society (henrybeston.org)
This video is a trailer for Don Wilding's special talk at the Cape Cod National Seashore's Salt Pond Visitors Center in Eastham on Cape Cod at 2:45 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 16.
The series of talks, which begin with two other speakers at 1 and 2 p.m., commemorate the 30th anniversary of the storm known as the Blizzard of '78. Wilding's talk will focus on the demise of Henry Beston's Outermost House.
Additional video courtesy of Cape Cod Writers Center and WCVB-TV, Boston. Photos courtesy Nan Turner Waldron (Butterfly & Wheel Publishing), Jack Clarke, George Rongner, Noel W. Beyle, Marilyn Schofield, Cape Cod Times, Wheelwright Museum of American Indian (Santa Fe, N.M.).
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