Bicycles may be rented in Orleans, Eastham, and Provincetown.
Safety Tips Check your brakes, gears, and steering before starting out, especially if you are using an unfamiliar bicycle. Wear a helmet.
All trails are two-way, so keep to the right.
Be alert for hikers and watch out for sand on the trails.
Use front and rear brakes together, or you may be thrown over the handlebars.
Do not speed.
Hiking
Walking the self-guiding trails located throughout the National Seashore is an excellent way to get away from the hurly-burly pace of the tourist areas and to get a sense of the Cape’s natural and human history. Most of the trails are not arduous.
The Nauset Marsh Trail in Eastham is a 1-mile loop that starts at Salt Pond, a glacial kettle pond that is fed twice daily by the ocean. From the trail you can get a close look at the life of Nauset Marsh, which was a bay when Champlain explored the area in 1605.
The Beech Forest Trail on Race Point Road near the Province Lands Visitor Center consists of 2 loops totaling 1 mile and tells the story of dune ponds and the elimination of early forests of beech, oak, pine, and cedar on the Lower Cape.