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The Cape Cod National Seashore is a 43,607-acre protected area on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
It includes 40 miles of Atlantic seashore, wood, ponds, marshes, dunes, and Atlantic coastal pine barrens. The seashore stretches from Chatham to Provincetown and also has historic lighthouses, cultural landscapes, and massive wild cranberry bogs.
With so much diversity, people have different reasons for loving to spend time in this wild, untamed space – hiking, swimming, biking, surfing, canoeing, visiting an old whaling captain’s house, searching for wild cranberries, climbing to the top of lighthouses, and much more.
One of the most famous beaches within the seashore is Outer Beach, described by Thoreau in the 1800s. See the Map
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