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Cape
Cod Rail Trail
Crossroads
Corner, North Eastham
I call it “Crossroads
Corner”, the intersection of Kingsbury Beach Road and Great Pond Road.
That’s my name for this unique point on a
map of Eastham from which you can get to just about
any place else in town, one way or another, without using the
highway. Once see it for yourself, and you’ll love
it!
Go due west for less than a mile, and you’re at Kingsbury Beach, a pretty little Cape Cod Bay beach that welcomes neighbors and bikers, but does not allow cars... where Eastham’s well-known sand flats stretch mile after shallow mile at low tide and the sun seems to set closer than anywhere else on earth.
Go due west for less than a mile, and you’re at Kingsbury Beach, a pretty little Cape Cod Bay beach that welcomes neighbors and bikers, but does not allow cars... where Eastham’s well-known sand flats stretch mile after shallow mile at low tide and the sun seems to set closer than anywhere else on earth.
Or, if shopping or
dining is on your mind, take a left before you get to the beach and
follow Herringbrook Road into Orleans (that’s IF you can get past the
turn-off to Wiley Park on Great Pond with its tall pines and playground
and kids’ swimming lessons, or resist the road to First Encounter
Beach, where beach grass sways in time to relaxation).
Go due east less than 1/4 mile, and you’re at the Cape Cod Rail Trail, the state-maintained bike (and walking) path that follows the bed of the old railroad from Harwich into South Wellfleet. Kingsbury Beach Road is the location of the tunnel under Route 6 where the bike trail goes from the west side of the Cape (bayside) to the east side (the “back shore” Atlantic Ocean). Cross the highway safely here to get to Arnold’s famous onion rings, to the playground at the elementary school, to the amphitheater at the Cape Cod National Seashore Visitors’ Center, even to roads leading to the high school and Eastham’s famous “Landmark Beaches” at Nauset Light and old Coast Guard Station.
Go due east less than 1/4 mile, and you’re at the Cape Cod Rail Trail, the state-maintained bike (and walking) path that follows the bed of the old railroad from Harwich into South Wellfleet. Kingsbury Beach Road is the location of the tunnel under Route 6 where the bike trail goes from the west side of the Cape (bayside) to the east side (the “back shore” Atlantic Ocean). Cross the highway safely here to get to Arnold’s famous onion rings, to the playground at the elementary school, to the amphitheater at the Cape Cod National Seashore Visitors’ Center, even to roads leading to the high school and Eastham’s famous “Landmark Beaches” at Nauset Light and old Coast Guard Station.
Go south, and you're less than
a mile to the eastern side, the “sunny side”, of Great Pond
with a sandy public beach. Or, pass the beach and turn left, and in no
time you’ll be at the Eastham Public Library with its pond-view reading
rooms, the Chapel in the Pines, the Superette, and the Park at the
Windmill. Use the convenient traffic light to cross here to get to the
ball field behind the town hall.
North? Well, that won’t take you very far on the back roads. Instead, go west to Herringbrook Road and turn north (right). This will take you all the way to the Wellfleet Drive-In Theater, one of the last in the country, and the home of a huge flea market. Or to the Audubon Society where you can wander among so many of the Cape’s habitats. Or to where you can get pizza, picnic lunches, or the first blueberry muffins of the morning.
North? Well, that won’t take you very far on the back roads. Instead, go west to Herringbrook Road and turn north (right). This will take you all the way to the Wellfleet Drive-In Theater, one of the last in the country, and the home of a huge flea market. Or to the Audubon Society where you can wander among so many of the Cape’s habitats. Or to where you can get pizza, picnic lunches, or the first blueberry muffins of the morning.
There’s just one place you cannot go from the crossroads. Only a couple of hundred yards down the road, there’s a narrow, almost hidden path to Great Pond, one of those little “secret” places that are so rare these days. It leads to a small clearing where you can wade, fish, or launch a kayak. But it’s private property. You cannot go there...unless you own a lot with deeded rights. A couple of hundred yards down from the crossroads there are two side-by-side lots for sale with deeded rights to the little landing on the pond. If you owned one, you could go anywhere at all.
Ask about: 2 Lots on Joe Dare Way, North Eastham @ $250,000 each
Call: Andrea
Office: 508 255-2329
Home: 508 349-9497
email: abslade@petersrealestate.us
