![]() ![]() Whether you’re headed back to our Harwich hotels after dropping off your rental bike or coming straight off the trail, The Seal Pub & Café is the perfect place to end what was hopefully a perfect day. Should you still have more steam in your legs, or if you rented your bike from Dennis Cycle Center, Devil’s Purse Brewing Company, in South Dennis, is well worth checking out. Their tasting room is quite the scene on summer days, and many people are coming straight off the bike trail, so don’t fret if you hair isn’t quite up to snuff. Within 50 yards, you will see a small sign on the right for First Crush Winery. With the pedaling portion of your day nearing an end, you may be ready for an adult beverage, and you’ll find wonderful options just off the rail trail.īack at the rotary, head toward Dennis rather than coming straight back to the inn. Once you arrive back in Harwich, more fun awaits. The bike bridge at Coast Guard Beach in Eastham. If your legs are nowhere near giving out, continue on the Cape Cod Rail Trail to Eastham and explore Cape Cod National Seashore’s Nauset Bike Trail, which ends at the famed Coast Guard Beach. Your kids will not be let you leave without making a purchase, so the backpack part of the equation is crucial. If you have children and a backpack, The Red Balloon toy shop is not to be missed. If you’re ready for lunch, Viv’s Kitchen & Juice Bar is an absolute must. Orleans is the hub of the Outer Cape, and the rail trail passes right through the center of town. Had enough? Don’t forget you have to pedal back to the inn! No? Then it’s on to Orleans. One of the kettle ponds in Nickerson State Park. The park maintains its own paved bikeway that winds through the woods and past several kettle ponds. If you’ve opted to stay on the rail trail, Nickerson State Park will be your next diversion-worthy destination. In Brewster, you can stick with the rail trail or you can head north on Route 137 (at the crossing next to Ferretti’s Market) and check out historic Route 6A and The Brewster Store, the iconic general store. The bog on the Harwich/Brewster line as seen from the Cape Cod Rail Trail on a fall day. If you’re looking for an Instagram photo op, this is the place. After you go over Route 6 on the bike bridge, there will be another cranberry bog on your right and a lake on your left. Within a mile, the trailhead for the Hacker Wildlife Sanctuary will be on your right it offers a beautiful walk or a challenging trail for mountain biking enthusiasts. Within seconds, you will pass a working cranberry bog on your left. View of a cranberry bog from the Cape Cod Rail Trail. Take the first right on the rotary and head toward Brewster. ![]() Within a few minutes you will come to a rotary. ![]() If you’re getting on the trail from Winstead Inn, head west (left). If you didn’t bring your own bike, Dennis Cycle Center, just three miles from Winstead Inn, offers rentals. With walking trails winding through the woods just off of the rail trail in Harwich Center, the bikeway is certainly worthy of exploring on foot, but a bicycle will let you take in far more territory in just a couple of hours. If you get on the Cape Cod Rail Trail at Dennis Cycle Center, you’ll be treated to yet another beautiful view of a cranberry bog. It is accessible in Harwich Center, about 100 yards from the Winstead Inn and just a short drive from the Beach Resort. The Cape Cod Rail Trail is 25.5 miles of paved bikeway, much of which was constructed on the Old Colony Railroad bed, making it blessedly free of hills. But it is the original Cape Cod Rail Trail that offers the greatest variety of scenic landscapes and local businesses to discover from the trail itself. The aptly named “Chatham Spur” was added several years ago and ends in Chatham, a lovely village. The Cape Cod Rail Trail in Harwich.Īnd yet, if we had to choose – which we kind of do for this story – we would opt for the oldest portion. Far shorter in length and with fewer diversions to explore, Cape Cod’s second-oldest bike route (Falmouth’s Shining Sea Bikeway is a skosh older) has changed dramatically since it was established, and very much for the better, with new “spurs” added to the existing route. When the Cape Cod Rail Trail originally opened, it was a mere shadow of its current self. ![]()
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