Cape Cod Campgrounds, Lower Cape and Outer Cape Cod Camping

 Camping on Cape Cod, Campgrounds, RV and Tent Camping List of Campgrounds, Cape Cod

Nauset Beach, Orleans, lower Cape Cod 

Lower Cape and Outer Cape Cod Camping

Lower and Outer Cape Cod are the areas of dunes and scrub pine described by Thoreau in his book "Cape Cod".  Walking and biking trails through the forest and dunes offer recreation in nature.  Lower Cape and Outer Cape include the towns of of Brewster and south to Orleans and then Provincetown. The towns of Lower Cape include Brewster, Chatham, Harwich, and Orleans.  Outer Cape includes Eastham, Wellfleet, Truro, and Provincetown.  Lower and Outer Cape offer dunes and nature trails, fishing, beaches and bike trails.

Drummer Boy Park in Brewster 

near the campgrounds at Nickerson

 State Park

Lower Cape Cod Campgrounds

Nickerson State Park,   508-896-3491

Brewster, Cape Cod, MA
418 sites, no hookups, dump station only,  Open April through October

Many of Cape Cod's historic sites are nearby.  Bike trails, two beaches nearby. Woodsy Tent Sites and RV sites.  Near Orleans art galleries, Windmill, 25 mile Rail trail.  Dunes trails not far; Skaket Beach, Rock Harbor Beach, and First Encounter Beach are within a bike ride on the Rail Trail. These are warm water beaches with little wave action.

Bike shops can be found near the Cape Cod Rail Trail,
this on near the Salt pond Visitors Center, Eastham.

Private Parks

Old  Chatham Road
RV Resort

310 Old Chatham Road, South Dennis, MA

. (508) 385-3616

Atlantic Oaks      3700 State Highway Route 6

Eastham, MA  02642

508 255-1437         email,    altlantic_oaks@capecamping.com

Shady Knoll Campground

1709 Main Street, Brewster, MA 02631

508-896-3002       email,   shady_knoll@capecamping.com

Sweetwater Forest, Family Camping Resort,  Route 124 Brewster, MA 02631

(508) 896-3773

Captain Peneman House, 

a whaling captain's house 

open for tours  in Eastham

Outer Cape Cod Campgrounds              Bike Trails

Private Parks

Horton's Camping

Resort, now part of Adventure Bound
South Highland Road, North Truro, MA

. (508) 487-1220

North Truro Camping Area  (Also Called Adventure Bound) 330 sites tent and RV
46 Highland Road, North Truro, MA. 02652              (508) 487-1847

North Of Highland Camping Area (Tent Only)

52 Head Of The

Meadow Street, North Truro, MA

. (508) 487-1191

Coastal Acres Camping  Court 

West Vine Street

Ext., Provincetown, MA. (508) 487-1700

Biking Coast Guard Beach, Eastham, Lower 

Cape Cod.  Free parking at the Salt Pond Visitors

 Center

Dunes' Edge Camp Ground
Off Route 6, Provincetown, MA. (508) 487-9815

Paine's Campground

180 Old Kings Highway, Wellfleet, MA

. (508) 349-3007

RV beach camping on the beach

 http://www.nps.gov/caco/cape-cod-national-seashore-oversand-beach-driving.htm

Click link above for permits and info about
Cape Cod Race Point Beach camping

Upper Cape Cod Camping

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Best Camping On Cape Cod

The best camping on Cape Cod for those that want family camping with a fireplace for cooking and a spacious wooded site will be the State Parks and State Forest.  In the north, Miles Standish Reservation in Plymouth, while not truly on Cape Cod, is near enough to Cape Cod to offer all the  beaches and bike trails.  Miles Standish also offers camping on fresh water ponds such as Curlew Pond and bike trails, hiking trails, fresh water fishing, and boating.  

The State limits the duration of a stay in the state parks to two weeks.  (two weeks in each park)  

Another favorite for tenting and wooded sites is Shawme Crowell State Forest in Sandwich near the Cape Cod Canal.  Shawme Crowell offers large sites in a pine forest with proximity to the Cape Cod Canal bike and walking trail.   

Salt water fishing is offered on the Cape Cod Canal and families can enjoy safe, off-road biking on fourteen miles of flat, paved trails that run the length of the Cape Cod Canal. 

Scusset Beach
 RV Camping

Scusset Beach State Park is a favorite of RV campers.  Scusset offers camping for large RVs on the north side of the Cape Cod Canal and also offers fishing on the Cape Cod Canal without the need to obtain a license.

Another favorite on Cape Cod is Nickerson State Park in Brewster, about mid way between the Cape Cod Canal and the tip of Cape Cod at Provincetown.  Nickerson offers the Cape Cod Rail Trail which runs through the park on its way from Dennis to Wellfleet.  Nickerson also offers fresh water ponds, walking trails, equestrian trails, and many nearby salt water beaches. 

List of Cape Cod Campgrounds