Enjoy 40 miles of protected coastline

Sure, you can hit the beach in a lot of places. But a beach so lovely as to be preserved by a president? Such is the case with the Cape Cod National Seashore.

In 1961, John F. Kennedy, Jr established the Cape Cod National Seashore – nearly 40 miles of fragile coastline – so that this sugary sandscape would remain protected for future generations.

You can enter the park via Eastham, MA, just past the “elbow” on Cape Cod (the shape of the Cape is often described as an “arm”), or even better, head further down to fun-loving Provincetown, located at the Cape’s terminus. Here you can cycle among the breezy heaths and moors, sunbathe by an unruly sea and if you’re lucky, maybe even glimpse a whale.