Kayak Salt Pond and Nauset Marsh
The Salt Pond is a 40-foot deep glacial kettle hole breached by the sea. You can access the pond via the Nauset Marsh Trail, a half-mile loop trail that explores the surrounding salt marsh ecosystem. We strongly urge birders to flock here because it is an excellent viewing area for waterfowl and shorebirds. Keep your eyes open for osprey and blue heron. The Salt Pond Visitor Center is the seashore's main visitor facility and features a museum, bookstore, and theatre. The theatre screens short films on Cape Cod's natural and colonial history.

Rediscover the New World
The 101 passengers aboard the Mayflower intended to settle in northern Virginia, but were blown off-course and landed at what is now called Coast Guard Beach in 1620. The Pilgrims tried to push south toward their original destination but hit the unforgiving shoals of Pollock's Rip, forcing them to return to Cape Cod, where they settled at Plymouth. In Provincetown, you can visit the Pilgrim Monument and the Provincetown Heritage Museum.