Wing Island — Attraction in Brewster

After walking at Drummer Boy Park we walked the two tenths of a mile to the Wing Island Trailhead. It only has a small sign attached to a tree. It’s located next to the Cape Cod Museum Of Natural History but doesn’t have its own parking area. The two parking lots are for Museum customers only. It’s only a two tenth of a mile walk from Drummer Boy Park on a nice sidewalk.

This is an outstanding trail that starts just west of the entrance of the Cape Cod Museum parking lot. Once you start on the trail there is good signage showing you the main trail and the cutoff trails off the loop trail that goes down to the Bay. You can’t walk onto the museum property without a wristband from the museum.

It starts off as a single trail heading north but then splits into a loop trail after crossing a large marsh over a wooden plank trail. The water just covered some of the boards but it wasn't a problem on this day. The loop heads down to the bay where you walk along the beach until it heads back south. It was low tide so there was a giant beach with water separating different...

I love it here. I almost don't want to review it because I don't want anyone else to know how great a spot it is! The trails are lovely, short, and good for kids. There is a narrow boardwalk through the marsh to get to the island. The trails end at a nice beach. If you want to park close to the trail, you will need to pay to go to the museum of natural history. But if you are just there for the walk, you will need to park at Drummer Boy Park and walk on the sidewalk. Just before the entrance to the museum parking lot there is a grassy opening, which is the trail you should...

A local told us about this spot and so glad we made the trek. Parked at nearby Drummer Boy Park and walked up the road to the public path. The walk to the dunes is lovely. We went on a weekday before the summer season and saw no more than four people in the hour we spent there, including two guys standing on the narrow boardwalk trying to get photos of the osprey nest in the middle...