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CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE

Cape Cod Bay to Atlantic Loop

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Recorded distance
135 km
Riding-time estimate
2 h 22
Journey
Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis

The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.

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Why this ride

Two coasts in one day, from Buzzards Bay villages to the outer Atlantic. The road: MA-28, MA-6A and local roads. Distance and riding time are estimates from the checkpoints until the road is measured on this page.

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

  1. 1. Falmouth

    Falmouth is the gateway to the Cape for everyone who arrives from the west, a handsome old town of white-steepled churches, a long village green and a harbour from which ferries cross to Martha's Vineyard. It sits on the south-western corner of Cape Cod, facing Vineyard Sound, with Woods Hole, a famous scientific village, a few kilometres down the shore. The permanent population is a few thousand in the village centre and much more across the wider town, and Teaticket, a neighbouring village, is a short ride along the road.

    Read the complete Falmouth write-up.

  2. 2. Mashpee

  3. 3. Chatham

    Chatham sits at the elbow of Cape Cod, where the arm bends and the Atlantic comes right up to the doorstep, and it is the sort of village that makes a good case for starting a ride on a weekday morning. The main street is lined with shingled shops, cafes and a bandstand, the houses are grey cedar with white trim, and the harbour is full of working boats. About 1,400 people live here year-round, and West Chatham, a quiet neighbour, has about as many. It is a place for stocking up, grabbing a coffee and a pastry and getting your bearings.

    Read the complete Chatham write-up.

  4. 4. Barnstable

    Barnstable is the biggest town on Cape Cod, though you would hardly guess it. It is really a string of villages along Cape Cod Bay, with Barnstable Village, Cotuit and Hyannis among them, and it takes in marsh, beach and farmland over a wide stretch of the Cape's arm. The town has almost forty-eight thousand people, and its long coast looks across to the curling tip of the Cape on one side and out to the Atlantic on the other.

    Read the complete Barnstable write-up.

  5. 5. Back to Falmouth

    Return visit. Read the place description above.

    Read the complete Falmouth write-up.

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