Planning a trip to Cape Cod National Seashore
Getting There:--Take Route 6, the Mid-Cape Highway, to Eastham (about 50 miles).
Visitor Information
Pick up a map at the Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham. There is another visitor center at Race Point. Both centers have ranger activities, maps, gift shops, and restrooms. Seashore beaches are all off Route 6 and are clearly marked. Additional beaches along this stretch are run by individual towns, and you must have a sticker or pay a fee.
Recommended Reading
Henry David Thoreau's Cape Cod (Penguin, 1987), an entertaining account of Thoreau's journeys on the Cape in the late 19th century. The writer/naturalist walked along the beach from Eastham to Provincetown, and you can follow in his footsteps. Henry Beston's classic The Outermost House (Henry Holt Co., 1992) describes a year of living on the beach in Eastham in a simple one-room dune shack. The shack washed out to sea about 20 years ago, but "The Great Beach" remains.
Getting There
Take Route 6, the Mid-Cape Highway, to Eastham (about 50 miles).
