Cape Cod Canal — Attraction in Bourne

The Cape Cod Canal provides a 7 mile, paved, flat trail for walkers, runners, and bikers. If you start at the Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge, there is free parking, bathrooms, water fountains, a playground and children's splash water playground, and picnic table areas. At the end of the trail is the Cape Cod Bay and beach area.

It is a fun place to watch the boats go by, people fishing, the cormorants or other birds, seals, and all the people. It is safe with people walking/riding the trail all the time.

There is not any shade, so bring a hat and water if you will be walking a long ways. The closest bridge to the Railroad Bridge is the Bourne Bridge and along the way is a campground. There is a store that sells ice cream although I have never been. There are no public bathrooms between those points.

Nearby are stores that will rent you a bike if you want to ride the trail to the end. Depending on the which way the wind it blowing and how hard, you can get quite a work out in.

There is the Cape Cod train, you can pick up at Buzzards Bay for a train ride which goes across the Railroad Bridge on Fridays 12 pm June - October.

The Cape Cod Canal is a treasure and this public trail along the...

CC Canal is my daily go to for biking the 7 mile waterside asphalt trail working out or walking and hiking the trails along side it. Plenty of boats and ships, occasional train crossings when the train bridge is lowered for crossing. At Christmas time the Polar Express train treats families to an off sight extravaganza to which I've never been. The kids love it. The fairly new train service from Boston to Hyannis transits and stops here. They beat the horrific highway traffic and carry your bikes etc. Plenty of bathroom access, the Village of Buzzards Bay and good places to shop or eat, drink and walk. BBay has a kids water park, play area there too.. A Pavilion for gatherings and take out dining. Band concerts during the evening during Summer (Thursdays?) in that Green as well. An occasional local farmers market as well. There are a few bike shops that sell, repair and rent various types of bikes. Plenty of parking, walkathon fundraisers, road races and many biking families, training and casual bikers.Lots of dog walkers and strolling couples. Tons of fishers trying to land stripers, bluefish, sea bass along...

Always loved it here, the entire canal is just beautiful with lots of boats and quite a few ships going by. A jetty on one side and a railroad bridge on the other just makes the atmosphere excellent. As well as the yacht club right near the power plant, and the fishing pier where lots of fishermen and visitors are is beautiful as well. The nice breeze from the water and just watching the current of the water and the ripples is nice as well. The entire canal also purely shows the amount of equipment and manual labor that had to be used for digging, smoothing out the dirt evenly, and finally adding pavement or the solid bottom it has before having the ocean water come in. All of this couldn't be more important, because canals are a shortcut for lots of boats and ships. Without them they would have to go out of their way or much much farther than if there was no canal. The convenience of the canal and the beauty of it is excellent and couldn't ask for much more. I highly recommend the Cape Cod Canal to everyone, it's...