wellfleet Cape Cod MA tips?

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

We are headed there for this weekend in a B&B, with our bikes. Anyone have any tips for biking paths, restaurants, sandwich places, etc?

[DebW]

You could pick up the Rubel Bike Map of Cape Cod. The northern end of the 22-mile Cape Cod Rail Trail is in South Wellfleet. Roads marked in green on the map include Old County, W. Main, Chequesset Neck, Long Pond Rd., Ocean View Dr, and Lecount Hollow.

[wavedancer]

Hi Lisa!

Wellfleet is my favorite place on the Cape. I landed there almost 30 years ago and it immediately felt like home. I have since moved farther "up Cape", but love to get back down when I can.

Riding:
Lots of great road rides on the back roads going up to Truro or out Long Pond Road to go over to the Ocean side and some of the kettle ponds. For bike paths, there is the Cape Cod Rail Trail that you can pick up near Marconi Beach. It will take you all the way to Nickerson State Park, Dennis, Chatham. There is also a bike path up in Provincetown that goes out through the dunes.

Food:
For casual, but good food with a great view across Wellfleet Bay, I would go to the Bookstore Restaurant. There is a great "fancier" restaurant on Main Street called Aesop's Tables. If you want to get roll-up sandwiches for the road, stop by The Box Lunch as you head out Main Street toward Truro. You might also want to try The Lighthouse Restaurant in the center of town.

Make sure you get out to Great Island to hike, walk the beach, and see the sunset!

Have a great trip! I would offer to come down and give you a tour, but I am doing the Eco-Cross Challenge cyclocross race in Falmouth on Saturday. My first-ever race of any kind, and my first attempt at cyclocross. Yikes!

Linda

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

O wow, what a great bunch of info! Thank you both!!

We hope to return to the cape eventually for more biking, so perhaps we "will" meet up at some point! I will def. get the Rubel map DebW, AND i'll check out some of those other places you mention, Linda!

This trip has a bittersweet purpose....to release my mother's ashes into the sea as she wished. ....But I hope to get some fun "easy" family biking in too with my 2 daughters and my 2 brothers. And DH and I hope to be able to "sneak away" for a longer ride at some point before we all leave on Sunday.
I want to return with DH again when we can just spend our time relaxing and biking without family gathering obligations. Linda, I'll let you know if we do plan another trip- it would be fun to meet up with you!

[Crankin]

Have fun, Lisa. The only time to ride on the Cape is in the off season! In fact, I was a die hard Cape vacationer, but when we started riding, we stopped, except for a weekend once in awhile. Just too much traffic and dumb tourists who don't know where they are driving. This year, we only went down for 2 days, one night to stay with friends.
I would love to plan a spring weekend in early May; let me know how the riding turns out.

Robyn

[wavedancer]

Lisa,

Hope you have a good weekend. Many blessings to you as you say goodbye to your mother. Let me know when you are back down this way.

Linda

[Triskeliongirl]

I hope its not too late to chime in. You have gotten some great advice. I suggest doing the cape cod rail trail bike path, its very nice, paved and protected from cars. At the end of the bike path, you can use your map to navigate to provinceton, also a nice ride (just choose the bike route that goes along the coast, don't remember now what the roads are called). I think from the start of the bike path (there is a free parking lot) to P-town and back, is around 70 miles. If you want to spend time with family that doesn't want to do that much riding, have them drive to P-town, so you could meet for lunch, and then they could go out on one of the whale watching boats while you ride back.