
Cape Cod Day Trip: How to Plan a Perfect Day Trip to the Cape
One anchor, one day: $25 per car at the National Seashore’s six fee beaches, a 90-minute fast ferry from Boston to Provincetown, and 27.5 flat miles of the Cape Cod Rail Trail.
Route-based guides for trips planned around food: which markets, producers and towns to link, the season justifying the journey, driving or rail times, daily budgets and where to stay between stops. Routes are traveled before publication. Written for people who plan a holiday around meals rather than sights.
Trips organized around eating.

One anchor, one day: $25 per car at the National Seashore’s six fee beaches, a 90-minute fast ferry from Boston to Provincetown, and 27.5 flat miles of the Cape Cod Rail Trail.

A weekend plan for Portland, Maine: lobster in the Old Port, year-round Casco Bay ferries to the islands, and Portland Head Light, first lit January 10, 1791, with planning notes.

How to see the Gilded Age mansions, walk the coast, and eat well in the City by the Sea — without letting parking and tour spending eat the whole budget.

Slowing down, reading the plaques, and walking past the red line turn a famous stroll into a working lesson in the Revolutionary era.

Rail, ferry, and bus combinations that make car-free coastal travel genuinely workable.

In the birthplace of the margherita, the dough is regulated, the oven is fixed, and the twirl is UNESCO-listed — here is how to eat by the rules.