Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20
CAPE COD JOURNEY
HAS ITS OWN Lure.
Automobile Club of America
Says Trip Once Made Will
Be Repeated.

island, as it is severed from the main
land by the Cape Cod Canal, has a lure
all its own, and motorists who once
make the trip around it to the tip end
will want TO come back year after year.
The cape is unique. Nowhere else in
the world can be found Is towns COM
priSing 143 homelike villages with such
qualifications. 1t faces four salt seas
Cape Cod Bay to the north, the Atlantic
Ocean to the east, Nantucket Sound to
the south and Buzzards Bay to the west.
It has $50 miles of shore line and $50
miles of beaches. Inland, away from the
sea, there are 277 beautiful natural
lakes and ponds.
Trip of Interest.
The Automobile Club of America sug-
geStS that motorists will find the trip
outlined in this article one of great in
terest and beauty. 1t suggests that the
shore road be used out of New York
City, after arriving there from WASH
angton, running via Greenwich, Bridge
port, New Haven, New London, Charles
town, to Wakefield. Here turn to the
right off Route for Route LIB through
Narragansett Bay to Saunderstown.
where the ferry should be taken to
jamestown. There is a mile run across
the island and then another ferry is
taken to Newport, this Summer place
OF more than special interest because OF
the yacht races being held off its shore.
From Newport run up through liver
ton to Fall River, and then along Route
to New Bedford. Here the .motorist
who wishes to include stopover on
MarthaS Vineyard on his trip may take
the boat that runs over to this island.
It is % miles long from east to west and
is crossed by excellent State highways,
which also connect its chief settlements.
1t is a lovely place and reached by
delightful sail over BuZZardS Bay and
Vineyard Sound. Oak Bluffs is the larg-
est Summer resort on the island. There
is q long, clean, safe beach here and the
harbor is always filed with boats Of all
descriptions.
Leaving Marthas Vineyard, it is not
necessary to go all the way back to
New Bedford in order to continue on to
Cape Cod. Boats stop at Woods Hole
and this town is in the extreme south
western part of the cape.
The motorist who does not want to
go over to the island can continue from
New Bedford along Route 6 through
Fairhaven, Marion, Wareham to Buzz
yards Bay, from which point one crosses
over the Cape Cod Canal to Bourne
and then run down along Route %
paralleling the east side of Buzzards
Bay, through Monument Beach, Catau-
met and North Falmouth to Falmouth.
The motorlSt crossing by boat from
Oak Bluffs to Woods Hole will have to
run up to Falmouth. The road then
turns eastward along the south shore of
the cape, passing around through Fall
mouth Heights, gay Summer settle
ment right on Vineyard Sound, and
through Waquoit Santuit to OSterville,
with its picturesque east and west
bays. Continue along through Center
vile to Hyannis, and here one will note
that the highway resembles more a
road up in Lenox In the Berkshires or
at Westbury, Long Island, than an old
time Cape Cod road. There is steady
procession of walls and entrance gates
on either side, with occasional glimpSeS
OF fine dwellings through the trees.
Shopping Center of Cape.
Hyannis is the smart shopping center
of the cape. At Hyannisport Oh the
bluffs is located the Summer colony.
Next comes Bass River, then Dennisport
and West Harwich The country
through here is quite fiat and suggests
the sea. At the latter place there is a
pine grove down near the water which
Is very attractive spot. Run through
Harwiehport and South Chatham and
then at the very end Of the south shore
right out on the Atlantic lies Chatham.
The motorist who wishes to linger along
this south shore for several days will
find good accommodations at Falmouth
Heights, Osterville, Hyannts, West Har-
wich and Chatham.
Running northward from Chatham
up TO Provincetown, after leaving
Pleasant Bay behind, which is an arm
of the sea that comes in among the
hills like a lake, the highway runs in
land through forests and freshwater
ponds and farms into Orleans, where
the route running along the north
shore Of the cape comes in,
From Orleans on to Provincetown
the roads runs on a narrow strip of
soil and sand only about 6 miles in
width stretching from Cape Cod Bay
to the Atlantic. 1t passes through East
ham, Wellheet and Truro. This is a
wild coast along here, where in Winter
many ships have foundered. In Win
ter the tides wipe the beach out and
eat away at the base of the cliffs, so
that the cape is narrowing every year.
But in Summer it is perfectly safe.
Beyond Truro is North Truro, and
from her to Provincetown is the only
part of the cape that is all sand. Cape
Cod to many people means Province
town. 1t maintains large art colony
and Is a most picturesque place, with
its narrow streets going UP and down
over the sand knobs, gray gabled
houses, red ctiInneys, picket fences and
the duns, a miniature Sahara coming
down to the edge of the ocean. Here at
Provincetown the Pilgrims first landed,
and to their memory the granite shaft
Of the Pilgrim Tower rises from Town
Hail. The view from the top of this
is superb and should be seen by all
visitors to the town.
For the return trip, 1t is necessary to
retrace to Orleans and then follow the
north shore road skirting the shore of
Cape Cod Bay through Brewster. Dennis,
Yarmouth and Barnstable to Sycamore.
This highway here goes through very
different country than the south shore
road. To the south Of the bay highway
is a range of wooded hills, and the
farms and villages are on a narrow
strip between the hills and the bay,
sometimes behind long-lying salt
marshes and yellow sandbars The viii
lagos here are all tree-shaded ones and
give visible lie to the impression that
Cape Cod is all sand.
From Sycamore over to BuZZards Bay
the road skirts the canal, and then for
variety on the return trip the motorist
should run via Wareham, Marion and
Fairhaven to New Bedford, and then,
instead of running via Fall River, take
good road that runs to the south
of New Bedford via Dartmouth, Central
Village and Adamsville into Tiverton
Four Corners and then up to Tiverton.
From here run to Portsmouth and then
over the new Mount Hope Bridge TO
Bristol and up through Warren and
Darlington into Providence.
From Providence the airline route
through Danielson, Willimantic. MARI
boro, Middletown, Meriden and Milldale
should be followed to Waterbury and
then through Middlebury, Newton,
Bethel to Danbury and through Cross
River, Armonk to White Plains and
down the Bronx River Parkway to the
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