When staying at Cape Cod vacation homes, don't forget to go hiking. Hiking in Cape Cod can be quite an exhilarating experience, and provides the opportunity to explore hundreds of miles of trails, covering everything from beach dunes and mountain peaks to woodlands and the seashore. If you love the outdoors and hiking sounds like a lot of fun, choose from the Cape Cod hiking trails listed below and get started.
Upper Cape Trails
First up is Sandy Neck Conservation Area, which is a barrier beach with dunes and a salt marsh that overlook Cape Cod Bay. Then there is Scusset Beach State Reservation, a popular camping area open all year around. Shawme Crowell State Forest provides camping, cycling and walking trails, while Talbot's Point Salt Marsh Wildlife Reservation winds through a salt marsh and red pine trees. The Knob covers a bird sanctuary, Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve covers uplands, marshes and barrier beaches. Ashumet Holly and Wildlife Sanctuary offers self guided nature walks.
Mid Cape Trails and Lower Cape Trails
Nickerson State Park has campsites, hiking trails, ponds filled with trout, an amphitheater, an eight mile bike path and roads. Bell's Neck Conservation Area covers marshland with trails, a pond and tidal creeks. Seaside Trail, as the name suggests, is a harbor trail, while the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History offers three trails with beech tree groves, uplands, salt marshes and a bay beach. There is also the 800-acre conservation area called Punkhorn Parklands, with woodlands, kettle ponds and marshes.
Outer Cape Trails
For the visually impaired, there is the Button Bush Trail, which is a wooded trail with Braille markers and guide ropes. The Great Island Trail is a seashore trail that leads to Jeremy Point. Atlantic White Cedar Swamp Trail is another seashore trail covering a boardwalk with lots of flowers and plants. If you would like to see the Atlantic Ocean while on your hiking trip, choose the Pilgrim Heights Area, which is a seashore trail along a blueberry farm, dunes and salt meadows.
Hiking enthusiasts organize interesting events regularly, so book your stay at your vacation rental during the Cape Walk or the Walking Weekend, both annual affairs in Cape Cod. With innumerable hiking trails and fellow hikers to keep you company, your Cape Cod vacation will guarantee you plenty of activity under the sun.
Hike through a pine grove with blueberry bushes, a salt marsh and sand dunes, at Sandy Neck Great Salt Marsh Conservation Area. West Barnstable Conservation Area offers a wooded trail. Botanical Trails of the Historical Society of Old Yarmouth is a 60-acre wooded area that comes with a pond, and Indian Lands Conservation Area offers a two-mile walk through the woods and riverbanks. Cape Cod Rail Trail covers the towns of Brewster, Dennis, Orleans, Harwich, Wellfleet and Eastham, following what used to be a railroad.
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