Nickerson State Park and the Cape Cod Rail Trail

We landed in Brewster, Massachusetts and a drizzly Nickerson State Park. We set up the tent, mostly avoided the rain, and crashed out pretty early. We got up the next morning and put our bikes to good use riding the Cape Cod Rail Trail. The trail starts in and goes for 23 miles up the Cape to Wellfleet. We caught it about ten miles in and rode up to Wellfleet. We planned on riding up to Provincetown at the tip of the Cape, but realized it would be another 25 miles so thought better of it.

End of the trail! 

Instead we rode another 6 miles from the end of the trail into the town center of Wellfleet. We were both really glad we did it because it wound through some really pretty scenery, including a few miles on Ocean Drive, which, shockingly, was right on the ocean. Unfortunately due to the fog we couldn’t see very much of it.

We rode down to the pier and enjoyed a delicious lunch at Mac’s on the Pier. We split a lobster roll and a large bowl of clam chowder for $20. Not bad considering we couldn’t both get a burger and fries for that back home.

East coast seafood, can't beat it

On our way back to the campsite we took another detour in the town of Eastham, taking a couple more side roads leading to a bike path that went straight to a beautiful beach right on the ocean. We took some time to kick off our shoes and relax, and enjoyed watching the tide come in.

It was awesome watching kids that were watching for the biggest waves and trying to take them on. Often they won, but it was fun to see the times when the waves were bigger than expected and took them off of their feet. It sounds really lame and cliché, but there is something awesome about standing at the edge of the beach and just watching and feeling the power of the ocean as it ebbs and flows across the beach.

Rock Star Rider!

Tired and satisfied, we headed back. After 40 miles of riding (Heather’s record for one day), we decided to drive up to Provincetown. P-town deserves it’s own post…