What’s Hot for 2012

Car-free, green transportation to Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket is getting better all the time. Share the ride, save fuel and cut your carbon footprint.

Plane

Cape Codders are enjoying a greatly-improved regional airport. Passengers using Barnstable Municipal Airport in Hyannis have a new, 35,000 sq. ft. terminal, improved parking and better vehicle access from Rtes. 132 and 6, via Attucks Lane and Airport Road. Look to the sky for the new air traffic control tower.

Bus

The Cape Cod RTA is introducing five-times-a-day, regular route bus service to the towns of Sandwich and Bourne in January 2012. Both routes will run from the Sagamore Park & Ride lot in Bourne toward Mashpee Commons. It’s a two- or three-year initiative designed to help clean the air and mitigate traffic congestion.

Travel from New York City to Hyannis on Megabus. Select from two trips daily each way beginning May 25, 2011. Megabus arrives and departs from the Hy-Line Cruises docks on Ocean Street for an easy ferry connection to/from Nantucket and, in season, Martha’s Vineyard.

Ferry

Beat the traffic to the Cape with fast and fun ferry service between downtown Boston and Provincetown. Then use The Shuttle and the Flex Bus to visit the Cape Cod National Seashore celebrating its 50th Anniversary this season with a host of special events.

If you are bound for Martha’s Vineyard from the New York metro area, try the Viking Fleet’s fast ferry from Montauk, Long Island. Or ride the Seastreak fast ferry from Manhattan and Northern New Jersey.

Bike

Park in the lot off Rte. 134 in South Dennis and use your bikes to explore six delightful Cape Cod towns—all the way to Wellfleet-on the 22-mile Cape Cod Rail Trail. Then hoist your bikes onto the Flex Bus in Wellfleet and head off to the magnificent Cape Cod National Seashore bike trails in Provincetown. Views along the Province Lands Bike Trail are breathtaking. Get a map to the Seashore bike trails.

Take your bikes aboard the ferry to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Check out Wheels, Heels and Pedals for maps of the best Nantucket bike trails and paths.