Shining Sea Bikeway

The Shining Sea Bikeway is a 10.7-mile journey of discovery through four of Falmouth's villages, gently traversing glacier-sculpted natural wonders from Woods Hole on Vineyard Sound to North Falmouth along the shore of Buzzards Bay. The Bikeway is a paved, multi-use trail for residents and visitors to cycle, walk, jog, skate, and cross-country ski, and is an enriching experience to connect people with nature and time - past, present and future. The Bikeway occupies the rail bed of the now defunct New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company and is named in honor of Katharine Lee Bates, born in Falmouth in 1859, who penned 'America the Beautiful,' with its line, 'And crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea!' The Bikeway is the only bikeway on Cape Cod that runs alongside the sea, providing views across salt marshes, barrier beaches, and open water, and is home to a variety of wildlife, including quahogs, bluefish, River Herring, eels, egrets, Great Blue Herons, Red-tailed Hawks, Osprey, turtles, Red Fox, muskrats, and deer