![]() ![]() For Cape Cod standards, what a deal!Ī frequency pass offers a set amount of days (say, two or three days) to visit beaches in participating towns, with or without restrictions. For $60, you have unlimited access to six beaches in four Cape Cod towns. Just look at The Cape Cod National Seashore annual pass as an example. If you are a skier or rider, think Epic/Ikon (season pass) or Indy/Mountain Collective (frequency pass).Ī season pass could offer unlimited or limited access to beaches in participating Cape Cod towns. A recent trend in the ski industry is the evolution of a multi-resort, “all-access” season or frequency pass. The idea of a multi-town or Cape-wide pass is rooted above sea level. ![]() Ridesharing eliminates parking problems completely. You can drop off your party and park elsewhere if you don’t mind walking back. You can visit before 9:00 am, or after 4:30 pm in most cases. Feel free to ready the rotten tomatoes.Īdmitedly, it is easy enough to work-around parking at town beaches without the required parking sticker. Overloaded with 15 different beach sticker programs, I am convinced a multi-town beach sticker season pass is a worthy pursuit. (I actually compiled a spreadsheet listing all this information and my head hurt about thirty minutes into a 2-hour project.) Easier said than understood.Īll 15 Cape Cod towns have different prices, options, enforcement dates, enforcement times, and processes for purchasing a beach parking sticker/pass. Similarly, Chatham and Orleans continue the longstanding debate of the proper distribution of revenue from oversand vehicle stickers.īeing Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start of the summer, most Cape Cod towns updated their beach information and fees for the upcoming summer season. Recent articles on the “dust-up in Dennis,” where seasonal residents are not eligible for the $50 full-time resident beach sticker and instead must buy an $180 seasonal resident beach sticker. Could a multi-town, even Cape-wide, beach parking pass better promote these natural resources?īeach access has been on my mind. Yet parking at area beaches during the summer season can be daunting, to say the least. The same is true for the communities around them. Whether bayside or oceanside, salt or fresh water, private or public, beaches make Cape Cod a special place. I’d love to hear your reaction to the idea, so unleash the comments!Īll-Access/Multi-Town Cape Cod Beach Parking Pass ![]() The concept is rooted in the mountains (ski areas), but could create new experiences and better understanding of Cape Cod’s natural resources for locals and visitors alike. In the spirit of this weekend kicking off the unofficial start of summer, below is an essay (long shot idea) asking local leaders to consider participating in a multi-town - better yet Cape-wide - beach parking pass. Photo credit: Jeff Shaw.Īuthor’s Note: Happy Memorial Day weekend! I hope you are able to gather safely with family and friends to celebrate and commemorate. These wetlands which typically dry down by mid-summer, support plants, serve as breeding areas for Spadefoot and Fowler’s toads, and provide drinking water for wildlife.Īrnold’s Provincetown Bike Rentals wants you to enjoy your visit biking around town and through the Province Lands.The Ridgevale Beach parking attendant shack in May, 2021. It was put aside in the 1600s by Plymouth Colony as a fisheries reserve.”ĭid you know there are 135 acres of seasonal freshwater wetlands across the dune landscape of Cape Cod National Seashore’s Province Lands. According to the National Park Service, “The Province Lands area of the Cape Cod National Seashore in Provincetown is also known as the second-oldest “common lands” in the nation, second only to Boston Common. The Cape Cod National Seashore’s Province Lands area offers a wonderful system of biking trails that wind their way throughout the seemingly endless expanse of amazingly beautiful sand dunes that seem almost out of this world. Arnold’s Bike Rentals is located only a short distance from Province Lands. It is provided as a service to our bike rental customers. The Provincetown bike map above shows the biking trails of the Province Lands area of the Cape Cod National Seashore. ![]()
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