Cape Cod - Nantucket, Massachusetts

Spring and fall are good times of year that deserve a special trip. It's probably not hot, it's probably not cold. Naturally, you want to enjoy all this on a bicycle. IBT's Cape Cod and Nantucket tour is an admirable answer to this need.The Cape Cod tour, some years ago expanded to include Nantucket, is a classic IBT offering with a long history. This is country that understands the bicycle (note the well-known Cape Cod Rail Trail) and is quietly ready to entertain visitors, having had so many of them down the years. Aside from pleasant accommodations and meals that reflect the area, as well as satisfying biker appetites, there are museums and visitor centers.

At the Salt Pond Visitor's Center the curious water supplies of a finger of land surrounded on three sides by ocean are explained. The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History introduces you to special habits of nature and marine life in this unusual area; at the Nantucket Life Saving Museum daring deeds are recorded, and at the Brooks Academy Museum you'll learn how the cranberry industry on Cape Cod functions. You've been passing salt marshes, cranberry bogs and salt ponds and will find these visits answer questions that have come persistently to mind as you pedal through this very special landscape.