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Road Trip to Truro, MA
Road Trip to
ruro has fewer residents now than it did in 1840—when
Pamet Harbor was a whaling and shipbuilding port—
which is possibly one of the best reasons to go there.
Beyond beautiful homes built into the hills and a narrow strip
of tiny cottages and motels, there is little real commercial
development here - it is more a sleepy and rural world of
moors, hills, valleys and rivers with homes hidden amongst the
trees. A handful of gourmet markets, restaurants, cafes, and
galleries make up the town’s commerce.
This bucolic village qualifies as the Cape’s ‘sleepiest’
community. Writers, artists, politicos and those seeking a
simpler life are wont to vacation and live here. American art
icon Edward Hopper—who found the Cape’s light ideal for
his brand of austere realism— summered, hermit-like, in South
Truro for over 40 years in near total contentment.
WHEN YOU GO:
KALMAR VILLAGE
674 Shore Rd. (PO Box 745),
North Truro
(508) 487-0585
kalmarvillage.com
HIGHLAND LIGHTHOUSE
27 Highland Light Rd.,
North Truro
(508) 487-1121
highlandlighthouse.org
While many are drawn by this relative isolation, they can be
comforted by the fact that lively Provincetown is just a short
drive away. To some, it is Truro which comes closest to the
nostalgic ‘old Cape Cod.’ Mile for mile, it has more scenic
backroads than the other Cape towns—and they are all
conveniently located off Route 6.
DAVID WEINTRAUB
Truro’s incredible natural gifts—high dunes, estuaries, rolling
moors, rivers fringed by grasses—make it a one-of-a-kind place
even among a peninsula chocked with uniqueness. It was
blessed with some of the Cape’s all-time great waterfront—
both bay and ocean—and undeveloped forests. Most of the
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