Must-see spots include Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge for viewing seals and other wildlife, Chatham Lighthouse, Mass Audubon’s Welfleet Bay nature trails, Cape Cod National Seashore sand dunes, Marconi Beach, Highland Light, Wood End Light, and Long End Beach. A rugged low-tide hike beginning at Pilgrim’s First Landing Park will lead you across a long breakwater to the very tip of the Cape, where Wood End Light and Long End Beach will reward you. In season or out, Provincetown is one of my favorite places on the Cape. For that reason, travel in snow and heavy rains is much slower and more treacherous, but well worth the effort for the photographic opportunities. In some portions of the drive (as you reach the upper forearm and wrist of the arm) it seems as though there is only the road separating Cape Cod Bay from the Atlantic Ocean. The drive along Rt 6 (Cape Cod’s only “highway”) gradually opens up through sandy forests of pine as the peninsula grows narrower and more exposed to the elements. If you’re planning a trip to Cape Cod, consider visiting the off-season and plan to visit some of my favorite photo locations… Woods Hole & Falmouthįences normally used to hold the sand dunes in place also keep the fresh snow intact.įrom the elbow of Chatham and Monomoy Island to the northern towns of Orleans, Wellfleet, Truro, and Provincetown, this part of Cape Cod is far more windswept and feels wilder as a result.
What you lose in ice cream and mini-golf, you gain in color, light, and atmosphere. There is so much beauty everywhere you look. Cooler temperatures overnight lead to incredible low hanging fog in the marshes and bogs. There’s no fighting through crowds at a sunset. Yet, in the off-season, Cape Cod comes alive photographically. Add huge snowfalls and bone-chilling yet humid winter days and it would have been easy to become disenchanted. For workers in the service industry, the off-season can be punishing - many businesses, restaurants, and hotels close, so jobs can be much harder to come by. Public activities were fewer and farther between, and I was introduced to a completely different side of my childhood wonderland. A summer sunset on Cape Cod is hard to beat… but the other seasons have so much beauty to offer.
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