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Trails: In addition to 8 miles (13 km) of roads, the state park has trails for hiking, cross-country skiing, horseback and mountain bike riding, and an 8-mile (13 km) set of bicycle trails that connect to the Cape Cod Rail Trail. The bicycle trails bring riders to white pine stands, spruce stands, a cedar swamp, pond views, and woodlands. [8]
A road bike stands poised to ride at the start of the Cape Cod Rail Trail in Nickerson State Park, Cape Cod. The trail begins in Yarmouth at Station Avenue. This trailhead has a parking area and is just south of exit 75 on US 6. West of here, the trail crosses over Station Ave on an overpass and connects to Peter Homer Park and continues as the ...
The Cape Cod Canal is an artificial waterway in Massachusetts connecting Cape Cod Bay in the north to Buzzards Bay in the south, and is part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. The approximately 7.4-mile-long (11.9 km) canal traverses the neck of land joining Cape Cod to the state's mainland. It mostly follows tidal rivers widened to 480 ...
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The Cape Cod Canal, completed in 1916, connects Buzzards Bay to Cape Cod Bay; its creation shortened the trade route between New York and Boston by 62 miles (100 km). [ 9 ] Cape Cod extends 65 miles (105 km) into the Atlantic Ocean, with a breadth of between 1–20 miles (1.6–32.2 km), and covers more than 400 miles (640 km) of shoreline. [ 10 ]
On Cape Cod Bay at the east end of the Cape Cod Canal, a popular swimming and camping area. Shawme-Crowell State Forest: Barnstable: 624 acres 253 ha: Forested 285 site campground J.A. Skinner State Park: Hampshire: 843 acres 341 ha: 1940: Connecticut River: South Cape Beach State Park: Barnstable: 460 acres 190 ha
The Claire Saltonstall Bikeway, also known as the Boston to Cape Cod Bikeway, is a 135-mile bikeway marked as Bike Route 1 that starts on the Charles River Bike Path near Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts and winds along Boston's Emerald Necklace, using mostly back roads and bike paths with occasional stretches of secondary highways.
Camping at Shawme-Crowell State Forest includes access to Scusset Beach. [7] Fishing is available from a pier that extends out from the side of the canal, a breakwater, and the canal frontage road. Surf casting is possible at dusk along designated sections of the beach. Other park offerings include interpretive programs and restricted hunting. [3]