Falmouth, Massachusetts

Shining Sea Bikeway

A Journey Through Nature And Time

The Shining Sea Bikeway is a paved four mile adventurous pathway that weaves through a natural setting of woodlands to seascape across an ancient coastal plane. The Shining Sea is the only bikeway on Cape Cod that runs along the seashore. The path meanders through and along woodlands, marsh, swamp, salt ponds and seascape. It extends from Skating Lane in Falmouth to the Woods Hole Steamship Authority's site in Woods Hole, which is a historic seaside fishing and international scientific community and one of ten villages in Falmouth.

Officially dedicated in 1975 as a community project, the bikeway follows prehistoric Wampanoag Indian trails. A tribe of the Algonquin nation, the Wampanoags were non-aggressive people and notable seafarers, who regarded themselves as a part of the whole of Nature. Here they found a plentiful diet of shellfish, fish, game, wildfowl, berries, roots and nuts. In 1620, Wampanoag Tribal Chief Massasoit greeted Pilgrims, the first substantial wave of European immigrants.

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