Cape Cod s best beach? AAA chooses Race Point
It was the only beach on Cape Cod or in Massachusetts to make the list.
Here is what North America’s largest motoring and leisure travel organization (60 million members) has to say about the Cape tip gem in their June 2021 top five article: Since 1961, when President John F. Kennedy signed legislation creating the Cape Cod National Seashore, nearly 40 miles of pristine shoreline have been protected from development. You’ll find one of its six beaches – Race Point Beach – at the very tip of the Cape’s arm in Provincetown, jutting into the Atlantic. The views of the endless seas are breathtaking. Oftentimes you can see whales and a seal or two off in the distance.
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Provincetown allows bicycles on all Provincetown roads. It also has more than 7 miles of bike trails within the Cape Cod National Seashore. (Shutterstock)
PROVINCETOWN, MA Provincetown took the top spot on PeopleForBikes list of the top 10 small cities for biking in the United States.
The group gave the Cape Cod community its top spot in previous years, but for 2021, PeopleForBikes expanded its evaluation globally, rating more than 750 cities and towns around the world. Provincetown came in at No. 4 on the list with just three cities in the Netherlands ranked above it. Alma, Michigan, was the only other U.S. city to make the global top 10.
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The Provincetown Select Board has decided to seek advice from a consultant on a proposal from the Wampanoag Advisory Committee to rename Race Point to Meeshaun Point.
The renaming idea arose with a March 6 letter from the Wampanoag Advisory Committee to the Select Board. The letter asked for the board’s support for the committee’s effort to honor the original tribal village of the region.
Race Point is a section of the town’s coastline near the town airport, and owned by the Cape Cod National Seashore. The name itself references tidal race meaning, strong currents that challenge mariners navigating their way around the Cape tip, according to William Burke, a historian at the Seashore. The name “Race Point” dates to at least 1816, when the land was either state or federally owned, Burke said.
The Daily Yonder Outer Cape Cod Vaccination Efforts Focus on Vulnerable Groups and Making a Safer Tourist Season Before the sun-seekers descended, businesses and public-health agencies worked to vaccinate “hidden populations” and seasonal workers on the remotest part of Cape Cod.
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A vacant vacation cottage sits on Cape Cod Bay in Outer Cape s North Truro, Massachusetts. The town of Truro is one of the communities that pose challenges to mass vaccination efforts due to their remoteness, a fact made particularly obvious during the off-season. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Cape Cod bustles in the summer, with vacationers and second-home owners soaking up surf and sun. But the remote Outer Cape reveals its rural nature in the off-season, creating challenges for community leaders who are heading up efforts to get permanent residents there vaccinated for Covid-19.