Cape Cod and The Islands Everchanging Coastal Living

THE SPECTACULAR COASTAL REGIONS of the Cape & Islands were some of the first settlements in America just over 600 years ago. The region’s dramatic landscape is the result of the Laurentide Glacier which covered half of North America only 20,000 years ago. It was only 7000 years ago that this region completed its formation as we know it today. The land on which Cape Cod and the Islands sit is a Terminal Moraine (an accumulation of rocks & debris) at the outermost coastal ocean edge. It is everchanging, still forming and unforming and continually redefining its coastlines. Mankind made the Cape an island in 1916, with the opening of the Cape Cod Canal, using the Manomet and the Scusset Rivers to complete the passage from Cape Cod Bay to Buzzards Bay.

Cape Cod and its neighboring islands, Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, possess extraordinary beauty. Magnificent ocean vistas, spectacular sand dunes, quiet marshes, and historic seaside villages bring people back year after year. Improved roads and affordable automobiles opened the Cape to tourism, and by the 1930s, the Cape had assumed its place in New England as an idyllic and still unspoiled landscape of beaches, scenery and unique cultural heritage. Before the canal in 1900, the population of Cape Cod was only 25,000. After the canal & bridges were opened in 1916, growth became steady both year-round and seasonally. Today about 250,000 residents live here, but in summer the population grows to well over 1 million.

Living In Cape Cod & The Islands

This issue we will focus on living in the Cape & Islands. Each year we look at regions, communities, things to do and popular places to visit to start your search. In many cases, summer tourists who visit Cape Cod are drawn to living here by the incredible natural beauty of the region. The summer season is just amazing, but if you talk to the locals, it is the offseason that makes living here so very special.

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