This trail is the gateway to the Cape Cod National Shoreline. It starts at the Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham and wanders through dense pines, past monuments and over bridges.

Biking Cape Cod: On the Trail of Henry David Thoreau

By Karl Meyer Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a Harvard-educated writer, naturalist, philosopher, and political dissident who lived in Concord, Massachusetts. He is best known for two works: “Walden Pond,” about his two years spent alone in a cabin in the woods; and his essay, “On Civil Disobedience,” recounting a night spent in jail for…

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