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The Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce says the best times to leave the Cape are: Monday through Friday between 2 to 9 p.m. (excluding Monday holidays), Saturdays after 2 p.m., and Sundays before 1 p.m ...
Leaving Cape Cod on a holiday Monday can be a traffic challenge. Here's a look at backup conditions at the bridges.
Good morning. The National Weather Service is forecasting a partly sunny day today on Cape Cod, with highs in the mid-70s. North winds will be 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Traffic is ...
U.S. Route 6 (US 6) in Massachusetts is a 117.952-mile-long (189.825 km) portion of the cross-country route connecting Providence, Rhode Island, to Fall River, New Bedford, and Cape Cod. In the Fall River and New Bedford areas, US 6 parallels Interstate 195 (I-195). On Cape Cod, US 6 is a highway interconnecting the towns of the area.
The Cape Cod Canal, completed in 1916, connects Buzzards Bay to Cape Cod Bay; its creation shortened the trade route between New York and Boston by 62 miles (100 km). [ 9 ] Cape Cod extends 65 miles (105 km) into the Atlantic Ocean, with a breadth of between 1–20 miles (1.6–32.2 km), and covers more than 400 miles (640 km) of shoreline. [ 10 ]
There are currently two automobile bridges and one railway bridge that cross the Cape Cod Canal, each of which opened in 1935. An earlier set of bridges, also two for automobiles and one for rail traffic, opened between 1911 and 1913. Construction of the Cape Cod Canal began in 1909; the canal initially opened in 1914 and was completed in 1916.
The Cape Cod National Seashore (CCNS) encompasses 43,607 acres (68.1 sq mi; 176.5 km 2) [1] on Cape Cod, in Massachusetts. CCNS was created on August 7, 1961, by President John F. Kennedy , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] when he signed a bill enacting the legislation he first co-sponsored as a Senator a few years prior. [ 5 ]
Eric Williams, Cape Cod Times June 13, 2024 at 5:04 AM The soggy saga of the Duck Harbor overwash situation rolls on in Wellfleet , and a stretch of road has been raised to help keep flooding at bay.