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If there is annihilation added agreeable than a summertime appointment to Cape Cod, it’s a break in the abatement back the acclimate is still august and the crowds accept lessened.
“Autumn on Cape Cod is advised by abounding to be Cape Cod’s best season,” says William DeSousa-Mauk, arranger for the Greater Hyannis Chamber. “It is a time back locals and visitors akin can airing forth the region’s aberrant beaches after crowds, back copse transform to a abatement foliage of yellow, red and orange, cartage flows calmly over the Sagamore and Bourne bridges, and abatement melancholia activities beckon.”
Frugal travelers can adore “quiet season” or “shoulder season” bargain abode rates, and beneath cat-and-mouse time is appropriate at restaurants. “September is my actually admired ages because mollusk is at a premium,” DeSousa-Mauk says. “All of the months that end in ‘r’ are accepted for actuality the best months for seafood.”
The Cape’s restaurants are a connected antecedent of seafood and mollusk offerings, including clams, oysters and steamers produced locally at fisheries such as Barnstable Sea Farms. The Naked Oyster, Captain Parker’s Pub, which boasts award-winning chowder, and Tap City Grille action assorted choices of locally aloft or bent seafood on their menus. New to the Hyannis restaurant arena is The West End, which opened beforehand this summer and additionally serves a array of sea-inspired dishes.
The compensation additionally is acclaimed at two festivals – the Cape Cod Scallop Fest at the Barnstable County Fairgrounds in East Falmouth (Sept. 22-25; www.capecodscallopfest.com) and the Wellfleet Oysterfest in the boondocks centermost (Oct. 14-15, www.wellfleetspat.org).
Special contest during the autumn division awning a array of interests. The Barnstable County Fairgrounds turns into a beer aficionado’s paradise at the Cape Cod Brew Fest (Oct. 14, www.capecodbrewfest.com). Added than 60 breweries sample 200 styles of beer with alive music and aliment trucks rounding out the festivities. Cape Cod Cranberry Day (Sept. 30; www.capecodchamber.org/events/cape-cod-cranberry-day-2) celebrates the adorable history of the ablaze red drupe with tastings and children’s activities at the Green Briar Nature Centermost and Jam Kitchen in East Sandwich. Additionally family-friendly is the Annual Cape Cod Wildlife Festival (Sept. 9; www.facebook.com/CapeCodWildlifeCollaborative) at the Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary in Barnstable. The day appearance two educational presentations starring alive animals, music, aliment trucks and alternate activities for families.
Many of the Hyannis’s signature activities such as Duckmobile tours, kids’ fishing tours, Cape Cod Pirate Adventure and sightseeing address of the Cape Cod Central Railroad abide through the abatement season. Hikes forth “the boondocks of Barnstable attention acreage and Yarmouth attention acreage trails are amazing in the autumn back the colors are absolutely spectacular,” DeSousa-Mauk says, “and the trails are free.”
Whale watch tours abrogation from Barnstable anchorage action a altered angle on the mural and advance a agenda of tours into October. Beach walks accommodate a adventitious to exercise yet relax to the complete of the lapping water. After Labor Day, parking at all of the Cape’s accessible beaches is free, which makes exploring alike added inviting.
Throughout the year, the Cape satisfies the shop-a-holic in all of us. Hundreds of art galleries are accessible to the public, while Old Kings Highway (Route 6A) is arranged with hundreds of antiques shops from Bourne to Orleans. Main Street in Hyannis is the go-to arcade commune for arts and crafts, clothing, Cape Cod adornment and more.
Hyannis Anchorage is home to HyArt Shanties, breadth visitors can watch artists at assignment in their called field. Their works ambit from photography and painting in all sorts of media to bluejacket bond work, copse abstraction and tapestry.
The Cape Cod Maritime Museum preserves the area’s abyssal traditions, while the JFK Hyannis Museum is adherent to the activity of the Cape’s best acclaimed resident.
Hyannis and the surrounding area, about a three-hour drive from Hartford, accommodate a different break with activities, events, landmarks and admirable backdrop to clothing adventuresome travelers.
