Nauset Light earns the drive up the outer shore. The red and white lighthouse stands at the edge of eroding clay cliffs, and the Atlantic below is rarely calm or quiet. Walk the beach and you'll feel the particular wildness of this coastline, the way the wind carries real weight here and the surf pulls at the sand with intention. The cliffs glow in certain light. The horizon is uninterrupted and enormous. This is not a tame stretch of Cape Cod. It asks something of you, and it gives back more. Come with time to linger, and no particular agenda beyond standing at the edge of something genuinely vast.
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Dennis, MA
Scargo Tower
Scargo Tower is a 30-foot stone observation tower atop Scargo Hill, the highest point in the mid-Cape area at 160 feet above sea level. The tower was built in 1901 and offers panoramic views of Cape Cod Bay, Scargo Lake, and on clear days, Provincetown's Pilgrim Monument. Scargo Lake below the tower is a kettle pond formed by glacial activity.
Eastham, MA
Nauset Light Beach
Nauset Light is a red and white cast-iron lighthouse perched on the eroding clay cliffs of Cape Cod's outer shore within the Cape Cod National Seashore. The lighthouse was moved back from the cliff edge in 1996 to save it from erosion. The dramatic clay and sand bluffs drop 50-80 feet to a wide Atlantic beach below.
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