North Truro’s Payomet Performing Arts Center tent is up and tickets are on sale for close encounters with amazing live bands. Buy tickets in advance for performances by Aimee Mann, The Wallflowers and The Wailers (shown here) and more at tickets.payomet.org.
The sand sparkles in the rising sun at Coast Guard Beach in North Truro.
The baseball field for the families of the airmen who worked at the North Truro Air Force Station has been transformed into an outdoor theater for Payomet Performing Arts Center. Keep an eye out for programming, which is now being scheduled for the new space.
A whale watch is one of our guest’s favorite activities each year and one of the most popular attractions on Cape Cod. Have you had this wonderful experience? Dolphin Fleet offers daily whale watches during the summer – check out their website for the schedule as well as some great pics!
The Highland Lighthouse (also known as Cape Cod Lighthouse) is one of the most famous on Cape Cod – and even included in Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau in 1865:
“THIS LIGHT-HOUSE, known to mariners as the Cape Cod or Highland Light,
is one of our “primary sea-coast lights,” and is usually the first seen by
those approaching the entrance of Massachusetts Bay from Europe.”
What are some of your favorite lighthouses on Cape Cod?
There are secret paths in the Cape Cod National Seashore in Provincetown and Truro that may only be stumbled upon by accident.
Nobel Prizing-winning playwright Eugene O’Neill got it right when he said the Provincetown and Truro dunes are “a grand place to be alone and undisturbed.” It’s particularly perfect in the autumn when it’s unusual to run into another person out there.
10 Iconic waterfront Cape Cod cottages once treasured by fisherman and vacationers alike, revitalized to their original allure. Offering an authentic summer escape preserved from modern extremities, these quaint Cape Cod cottages will bring you back to the outer Cape beaches, the sounds of Cape Cod bay, and the tranquility of all that Beach Point, Truro, Massachusetts has to offer. Located minutes from Provincetown, the culture hub of Cape Cod, Truro Beach Cottages give you access Art Galleries, Photography Studios, Fishing, Watersports, Biking, Cape Cod National Seashore, Café’s, Restaurants, Theatre’s, Parades, Antique Shops, Harbor Cruises, Bookstores, Eclectic Shops, Whale Watching and much much more. Enjoy a casual summer retreat full of activities and festivities just steps from your beach cottage. Quiet evenings with the ocean in the background and the refreshing sea breeze will leave you yearning for tomorrow’s adventure.
Our cottages were updated in 2018 with brand new furniture, mattresses, sheets, pillows, and towels and offer you a casual summer beach vacation.
Visit Highland Lighthouse in North Truro—the tallest and oldest lighthouse on Cape Cod— before it undergoes a $1.2 million renovation by the National Park Services this fall. George Washington commissioned and established the original 45-foot-tall wooden lighthouse on the cliff of North Truro back in 1797, and in 1831 a brick lighthouse was built nearby, replacing the original. The present 1875 brick lighthouse is 66-foot-tall and was moved from eroding cliffs to keep it from falling into the Atlantic Ocean in 1996. When that happened, the ventilation was blocked to make the move easier. This fall it will close and ventilation will be reestablished; masonry will be repaired; a breathable coating will be applied to the exterior; windows will be replaced; corroded elements will be repaired or replaced; and safety improvements will be made. For directions, hours of operation and more information, visit www.highlandlighthouse.org/
