Cape Cod is an amazing place to live. The Cape offers walkable and bike-friendly towns, unparalleled outdoor recreational sites from beaches to nature preserves, and year-round arts and culture.
Choosing to live on Cape Cod means finding the right community for you and family. You’ll need to consider factors such as schools, hospitals, and community amenities.
We’ve put together this handy collection of resources all in one place to make your Cape Cod homebuying search a little easier.
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Cape Cod Health Care Resources
Cape Cod Healthcare
- Cape Cod Healthcare is the largest medical care provider on the Cape. They offer a full range of medical services including pediatric primary care.
Cape Cod Hospital and Falmouth Hospital
- Families living in Upper, Lower and, Mid-Cape communities are not far from almost any type of medical care they might need. You should know, however, that there are only two hospitals on the Cape: Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis and Falmouth Hospital in Falmouth. Both are part of the Cape Cod Healthcare system.
Cape Cod Beaches and Outdoor Recreation
Cape Cod National Seashore Beaches
- One of the most extraordinary things about living on Cape Cod is access to some of the best beaches in the Northeast. This resource provides information about every beach within Cape Cod National Seashore.
Cape Cod Beach Sticker Information
- If you live on Cape Cod, you need a beach sticker to take advantage of the glorious beaches. This guide offers beach sticker info for each town.
Cape Cod Rail Trail
- The Cape Cod Rail Trail is a community gem. You can cycle, walk, or run through six Cape Cod towns on this 22-mile trail. The trail provides access points to state and national parks along the way.
Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary, Barnstable
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, Wellfleet
- Mass Audubon maintains two wildlife sanctuaries on Cape Cod. Long Pasture offers beaches, meadows, woodland trails, and “million-dollar views.” Wellfleet Bay features extensive trails, salt marshes, a barrier beach, and woodlands. Each protects a wide array of wildlife.
Cape Cod Services
Cape Cod Mall
- The Cape Cod Mall in Hyannis is the only indoor shopping center on Cape Cod.
Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority
- If public transportation is important to you, find out if Cape Cod’s public transportation system with bus and trolley service offers routes in the communities you’re considering.
Cape Cod Arts and Culture
Cotuit Center for the Arts
Located at 4404 Falmouth Road in Cotuit, the Cotuit Center for the Arts is a dynamic arts and cultural hub serving all of Cape Cod and southeastern Massachusetts. The center attracts more than 35,000 visitors yearly for free and paid programming in a gallery, main theater, and black box theater. Events include art exhibits, live theater, concerts, classes, workshops, film screenings, and special events.
Cultural Center of Cape Cod
Located at 307 Old Main Street in South Yarmouth, the Cape Cod Cultural Center serves the entire Cape community and visitors to the area with a robust, year-round catalog of instruction, entertainment, and exhibition centered on visual, literary, and performing arts. Events range from culinary classes to live music to livestreamed performances.
Falmouth Art Center
Located at 137 Gifford Street in Falmouth and open year round, the Falmouth Arts Center hosts monthly exhibits in three galleries along with art classes for adults and young artists. A lower level has facilities for weaving, printmaking, and ceramics, as well as for children’s classes. The upper level of the art center features a large studio for classes and workshops and a fiber studio.
Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill
Founded in 1972, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill is powered by a faculty of artists and writers that support students of all ages and ability levels. Located at 10 Meetinghouse Road in Truro, Castle Hill offers exhibitions, classes, workshops, artist residencies, special events, lectures, and live music and dance performances.
Cape Cod Educational Resources
Public Schools on Cape Cod
- Cape Cod has nine public school districts. This list from the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce lists every district, plus the schools within each.
Sturgis Charter Public School
- Located in Hyannis, Sturgis Charter Public School is an International Baccalaureate Diploma high school for grades 9–12. From their website: “Despite having a non-selective admission policy with students gaining entrance via a lottery, Sturgis challenges conventional wisdom by offering students a unique ‘IB for All’ experience in which all courses for grades 11–12 are IB with no non-IB alternative courses and all courses in grades 9–10 are IB prep.”
Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical High School
Cape Cod Technical High School
- Cape Cod has two technical high schools. Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical High School is located in Bourne. Cape Cod Technical High School is in Harwich.
