Shining Sea Bikeway
The Shining Sea Bikeway is a rail trail in Falmouth, MA, in the northeastern United States. The path runs for over ten miles (16 km), from the Woods Hole Ferry terminal in Woods Hole to North Falmouth.
The trail was the southern portion of the Plymouth & Vineyard Sound Railroad, which was later absorbed by the Cape Cod Central Railroad. The creation of the trail began in 1977, when the Town of Falmouth purchased the Woods Hole portion of the rail line from the bankrupt Penn Central for $329,000.[1] The trail was extended an additional eight miles from Falmouth to North Falmouth in 2009.[2] Freight service south of North Falmouth ceased in 1989; the northernmost half mile of the trail runs adjacent to active track used to haul trash from the western portion of Cape Cod, which is collected at the Upper Cape Regional Transfer Station on the grounds of the Massachusetts Military Reservation.
While the Woods Hole-Falmouth section of former railroad is owned by the Town of Falmouth, the Falmouth-North Falmouth section is owned by MassDOT and is not officially abandoned.
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References
External links
- Friends of Falmouth Bikeways directions and link to map
- Town of Falmouth – Links to directions and maps
- On a Google map
- TrailLink