New England Journey
“This can be a option to expertise the Cape in a really totally different means.”

Cape Cod is thought for its seashores, however the space has at the very least 500 mountaineering, strolling, and mountain biking trails throughout 400 sq. miles.
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“They’re in all places,” stated Invoice DeSousa, publicist for the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce and an avid Cape hiker for the previous decade. “This can be a option to expertise the Cape in a really totally different means, to understand it for not simply being an important place on the seaside but in addition for its marvel, majesty, range of terrain.”
DeSousa beneficial the next 15 mountaineering spots on the Cape — one for each Cape city.
Hikers can discover ponds, wetlands, and pine-filled forests at this 280-acre location.
“There’s a really serene, peaceable, and usually stage path,” DeSousa stated. “A very good one for freshmen.”
Guests can select from shorter trails equivalent to Eagle Path and Lions Tail Path and longer trails equivalent to Pine Path and City Forest Path. Look ahead to boardwalks that go over marshy areas, he stated.
Hiker stage: Newbie and up.
The five hundred-acre space presents views north throughout Cape Cod Bay to Provincetown and south to Winery Sound. Hikers will spy every thing from oak to pine to hickory to maple bushes.
“There are some fairly steep hills right here with an incredible number of vegetation and plenty of sorts of stands of bushes,” DeSousa stated.
Hiker stage: Intermediate and up
This 1,800-acre space could be very numerous and widespread with mountain bikers in addition to hikers, DeSousa stated. Hikers will uncover deep forests and a uncommon expanse of meadowland.
“It has one of many tallest hills on the Cape,” stated DeSousa. “It’s known as Mount Zig. There may be additionally some fairly steep terrain there and it’s completely chock-full of wildlife.”
Hiker stage: Intermediate and up

DeSousa known as this hike of two contiguous Trustees of Reservations properties on 248 acres one among his favorites on the Cape.
“You may actually, in components of it, stroll immediately alongside the Mashpee River,” DeSousa stated. “It’s simply lovely.”
The closely forested trails have loads of shade, and you may cross the river on what’s known as the “Nice Bridge,” which is a part of the previous Route 28, he stated.
Hiker stage: Newbie and up
With 1,114 acres and greater than 9 miles of trails, this conservation space presents one thing for everybody, DeSousa stated.
“That is my absolute favourite,” DeSousa stated. “It’s the sweetness, it’s the range of terrain. They’ve stands of pine bushes, they’ve complete areas which can be full of lovely beech bushes, after which they’ve deciduous bushes, they’ve some wetlands, some marshes.”
Hiker stage: Newbie and up
This 300-acre conservation space marks the very best level in Yarmouth, 118 ft above sea stage, the place guests can see Plymouth’s Manomet Level on a transparent day. Be ready to share the path with mountain bikers, DeSousa stated.
Hiker stage: Intermediate and up
Seashore-loving hikers will get pleasure from this 124-acre a part of Dennis, stated DeSousa.
“It’s a coastal forest for a brief interval and then you definately really find yourself on the seaside,” DeSousa stated. “It’s proper on Cape Cod Bay.”
Hiker stage: Newbie and up
“It’s simply wild and delightful,” stated DeSousa about this 835-acre spot. “It’s untamed. It has plenty of wildlife, an incredible number of bushes.”
The densely forested paths are typically flat, DeSousa stated. Hikers will even encounter quite a lot of massive kettle ponds.
Hiker stage: Newbie and up.
The paths at this 259-acre conservation space, which encompass the West Reservoir and East Reservoir, are flat and provide beautiful water views, DeSousa stated.
“You stroll between the 2 our bodies of water,”he stated. “It’s very fascinating. It’s actually lovely.”
Hiker stage: Newbie and up
This 7,604-acre space is filled with salt and freshwater marshes, dunes, and freshwater ponds. The refuge is a favourite amongst hen lovers, DeSousa stated. There are greater than 10 species of seabirds, shorebirds, and waterbirds, in accordance with the refuge.
“It’s very serene and it’s a path alongside the seaside,” DeSousa stated.
Hiker stage: Newbie and up
This space has greater than two miles of trails on greater than 100 acres and options three ponds: Twinings Pond, Sarah’s Pond, and Meadow Bathroom Pond.
“Surrounding the ponds are stands of pitch pine and hardwoods offering nesting areas for the realm’s many birds,” DeSousa stated.
Hiker stage: Newbie and up

The 1.5-mile Fort Hill Path, which takes guests via a coastal forest, connects to the Pink Maple Swamp Path, DeSousa stated, and it’s all a part of the Cape Cod Nationwide Seashore.
“They each take about an hour,” DeSousa stated. “They’re simply walks and probably not what I’d name hikes. However they’re lovely.”
From the paths, guests can view the historic 1868 Edward Penniman Home and stroll the Pink Maple Swamp Boardwalk, he stated.
Hiker stage: Newbie and up.
This space, a part of the Cape Cod Nationwide Seashore, is comprised of greater than eight miles of trails with woods, marshes and seashores, stated DeSousa, who enjoys the path’s range.
“You stroll out onto the seaside and swiftly you aren’t on the seaside anymore,” he stated. “You hear the ocean within the background. There’s an increasing number of vegetation and, swiftly, you’re in a pine forest.”
Hiker stage: Newbie and up.
These 4 miles of trails, a part of the Cape Cod Nationwide Seashore, run via the Pamet River Valley, a hilly space of Truro. Hikers can get a hen’s-eye view of the ocean and valley from Bearberry Hill.
“You may really see an previous cranberry home and there are wild cranberry bogs,” DeSousa stated.
Hiker stage: Intermediate and up.
This 2.4-mile loop path, a part of the Cape Cod Nationwide Seashore, takes hikers previous 19 dune shacks the place main American writers and artists equivalent to Jack Kerouac and Jackson Pollock frolicked within the Twenties and past.
DeSousa known as the hike, filled with rolling sand dunes that result in the ocean, “an incredible expertise.”
“It’s like a moonscape of lovely undulating dunes,” he stated. “It’s actually one of the crucial distinctive experiences you possibly can have on the Cape.”
Hiker stage: Intermediate and up
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