Today, Cape Cod National Seashore spans 40 miles of seashore, including six major public beaches, 12 hiking and biking trails, and vast stretches of protected ponds, dune fields, and coastal pine barrens the local towns also manage many adjacent beaches and green spaces. Commercial and residential properties were donated or bought from private owners (sometimes by eminent domain) and from the towns of Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet, Eastham, Orleans, Chatham until the park spanned 43,607 acres (68.1 square miles or 176.5 square kilometers).
government created a park out of land that was primarily in private hands. Unlike most previous national parklands, which were usually carved out of rural public lands in the South and West, the Cape Cod park would be smack in the middle of established East Coast development. But the creation of the park would also set a new precedent. The land would be set aside for all Americans for the sake of recreation, for natural beauty, and for history. It was a sense of both looking forward and backward that led Kennedy and the United States government to establish Cape Cod National Seashore. Kennedy, in a 1962 speech before the America’s Cup
And when we go back to the sea.we are going back from whence we came. Some of the district’s famous visitors include the playwright Eugene O’Neill, the painter Jackson Pollock, and the American poet Edward Estlin Cummings, often styled as ‘e e cummings’ as he is attributed in many of his published works.We are tied to the ocean. Throughout the twentieth century, this secluded dune district attracted writers, playwrights, painters, and other artists looking for solitude and focus. On the outskirts of Provincetown and Truro, the Cape Cod National Seashore encompasses the Dune Shacks of Peaked Hill Bars Historic District. It also includes the old Air Force Station in North Truro, which has been redeveloped into the Highlands Center, and the former home of Attorney General Francis Biddle, who was a judge at the Nuremberg trials. In South Wellfleet, the preserve includes the site of the former Marconi Wireless Station, where operators completed the first two-way transatlantic radio transmission in 1903. This stretch of coastline includes Race Point and Herring Cove Beaches in Provincetown, the Coast Guard Beach in Eastham, Nauset Light Beach in Orleans, Marconi Beach in Wellfleet, and Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro. The National Seashore in Cape Cod spans nearly 40 miles of coastline on the eastern shore of the Cape Cod peninsula. This is the land that, in 1621, the Pilgrims found too desolate and wild for habitation and the land that transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau wrote about in his nineteenth-century Cape Cod memoirs. The preserve, which is managed by the National Park Service, encompasses some of the most unspoiled parts of the Cape’s Atlantic coastal pine barrens ecosystem. As an avid sailor, he understood the value of setting aside land for conservation and recreational pursuits in this popular summer retreat. Kennedy, who spent his summers in Hyannis Port on the other side of Cape Cod, had strong personal ties to the area. Kennedy created the Cape Cod National Seashore in August 1961. The preserve spans woodlands, ponds, and beaches in Chatham, Eastham, Orleans, Provincetown, Truro, and Wellfleet and covers much of the area that the Pilgrims explored in 16 after anchoring the Mayflower in Provincetown Harbor. The Cape Cod National Seashore consists of nearly 45,000 acres of protected land along the eastern shore of Cape Cod.
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