Cape Cod and the islands: Getting to the Cape
It was the Pilgrims who first suggested the construction of a canal between Cape Cod Bay and Buzzards Bay, so that coastal shipping could avoid the dangers of the open ocean; when finally completed at the start of the twentieth century, it left the peninsula as an island. Now all traffic to the Cape bottlenecks at one or other of the two enormous bridges - Bourne on Hwy-28 and Sagamore on Hwy-6 - across the canal, and you may regret trying to drive there on a summer Friday (or back on a Sunday). Each has an information office for the Cape (daily 9am-7pm) on its mainland side.One way to dodge the traffic is to fly . US Airways affiliate Colgan Air (tel 1-800/428-4322, ) serves Hyannis, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket from Washington, DC, New York, Boston and points further north such as Augusta, Maine; and Cape Air (tel 1-800/352-0714, ) flies several times daily from Boston, Providence and New Bedford to Hyannis, Provincetown and the islands. Bonanza buses run regularly from New York and Boston (tel 617/345-0539 or 1-800/556-3815, ), and the Plymouth & Brockton Bus Co (tel 508/746-0378, ) runs daily to Hyannis and Provincetown from Rhode Island, Boston, Plymouth and New York. Ferries take 90 minutes to cross from Boston to Provincetown.
You can also cycle from Boston on the 135-mile Boston-Cape Cod Bikeway, which extends all the way to Provincetown.
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