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Nature Trail

An entertaining way to see the real Cape Cod

Cape Cod Museum of Natural History

Photo: Julie O'Neil

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anna see what Cape Cod looked like before they built the clam shacks and miniature golf courses? You can find it on a little-noticed guided hike behind the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History. No secret to anyone who's been stuck on the Cape on a rainy day (hey, it happens), the museum hides a blue-skies secret: really interesting year-round walks through the adjacent 383 acres of museum- and town-owned conservation land you never knew was there, much of it salt marsh, over trails leading all the way to Cape Cod Bay, plus traveling hikes each Wednesday to random other locations all over the Cape. If you're an indoor person, there are snakes, live fish, frogs, turtles, even working beehives, and a room with giant widows that allows for unparalleled indoor birdwatching.

Shhhh! Cofounded by nature writer John Hay (The Run, In Defense of Nature), the chronically underfunded museum was originally housed in a tent. In 2003, it closed for six months for lack of money, but rebounded.
Shhhh! Binoculars provided. You can also see inside
an osprey nest, where the museum has placed a camera. There are monitors indoors, or watch online.

Shhhh! Find them listed in the calendar.

Shhh who knew

There's a jumble of Stonehenge-like rocks in the middle of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History's salt marsh. But it wasn't put there by the ancients. It's a solar calendar built by college kids to depict how early people in places without trees (meaning, not Cape Cod) tracked the angle of the sun to determine when to plant and harvest.

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Cape Cod Museum of Natural History

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869 Main St.
Brewster, MA, 02631
508.896.3867
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February 1 through March 31, Thursday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

April 1 through May 31, Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

June 1 through September 30, daily, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

October 1 through December 30, Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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