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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 ...
There are currently two automobile bridges and one railway bridge that cross the Cape Cod Canal, each of which opened in 1935. An earlier set of bridges, also two for automobiles and one for rail traffic, opened between 1911 and 1913. Construction of the Cape Cod Canal began in 1909; the canal initially opened in 1914 and was completed in 1916.
Jeremiah's Gutter, also called Jeremy’s Dream was a canal located on the border of Orleans and Eastham, Massachusetts, the first canal to cut across the peninsula of Cape Cod. It connected Cape Cod Bay in the west to the Atlantic Ocean in the east. It was active for over 100 years, although it gradually fell out of use and was replaced by the ...
With the Railroad Bridge as a backdrop, the Mayflower II crew makes its way through the Cape Cod Canal in 2022. The ship is a historic reproduction of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to the ...
1:30 p.m.: 10-mile back-up from the Cape Cod Canal bridges. At about 1 p.m. on Sunday, traffic on Route 6 was backed up around Exit 61 in Sandwich. As the weekend comes to an end, Cape Cod ...
Cape Cod Canal, Sagamore; Fort Point Channel, Boston; Hampshire and Hampden Canal, Hampshire and Hampden Counties; Hecla Canal, Blackstone; Holyoke canals First Level Canal; Second Level Canal; Third Level Canal; Lowell canals Eastern Canal; Hamilton Canal; Lawrence Wasteway; Massachusetts Wasteway; Merrimack Canal; Merrimack Wasteway; Northern ...
A U.S. Coast Guard boat steams past in 2021 as workers prepare to deploy a tidal turbine onto a lift arm on a platform just west of the railroad bridge on the Cape Cod Canal in Buzzards Bay.
The bridge and its sibling the Sagamore Bridge were constructed beginning in 1933 by the Public Works Administration for the United States Army Corps of Engineers, which operates both the bridges and the canal. Each bridge carries four lanes of traffic over a 616-foot (188 m) main span, with a 135-foot (41 m) ship clearance.