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Nauset Coast and Wellfleet Ponds

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Recorded distance
42 km
Riding-time estimate
49 min
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

A cross-Cape ride linking Atlantic beaches, kettle ponds and small ports. The road: MA-6A and local Cape 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. 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.

  2. 2. Orleans

    Orleans sits at the elbow of Cape Cod, where the arm of the peninsula bends north into the open Atlantic, and the sense of being at the edge of something begins here. It is a small town of about fifteen hundred year-round residents, with a handful of shops, a pleasant harbour at Rock Harbor and a few miles of beach on either side. The Cape Cod National Seashore, created in 1961 under President Kennedy, begins to the north in Eastham and runs along the outer shore for forty miles, a long line of high dunes, marsh and ocean beach.

    Read the complete Orleans write-up.

  3. 3. Wellfleet

    Wellfleet is a small town on the outer arm of Cape Cod, where the land narrows and the Atlantic is never far away. It has a snug harbour on the bay side, with oyster beds on the flats, and a long, wild coast on the other, where the dunes and beaches of the Cape Cod National Seashore face the open ocean. The oysters here have been famous since the seventeenth century, and the briny, plump Wellfleet oyster is served in restaurants across the country. A plate of them at a harbourside bar, with a cold beer, is the thing to do.

    Read the complete Wellfleet write-up.

  4. 4. Truro

    Truro is the narrowest part of Cape Cod, where the land is so thin that you can see the ocean on one side and the bay on the other from the same low hill. It is a town of rolling dunes, scrub pine, heath and small cottages, with only a couple of thousand people living here year round, and a quiet that is unusual in this much-visited region. The Cape Cod National Seashore covers much of the town, protecting the dunes, cliffs and beaches, and the sense of space is wonderful.

    Read the complete Truro write-up.

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