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Getting to the Cape

• Boston Logan International AirportBOS

  60 mi · about 90 min by road

  The airport nearly everyone actually flies into, and the one whose drive people underestimate. Sixty-odd miles to the Sagamore Bridge is ninety minutes on a Tuesday in April and can be three hours on a Friday afternoon in July, because the whole of eastern Massachusetts funnels into the same two canal crossings. Provincetown is another hour and a half beyond the bridge. Rental counters sit in a consolidated facility reached by shuttle; book the car well ahead for July and August, when Cape demand empties the Boston fleet.

• Rhode Island T. F. Green International AirportPVD

  70 mi · about 85 min by road

  Providence is the sensible alternative when the fare gap is wide, and the approach avoids Boston's traffic entirely: you come east on I-195 and cross at the Bourne Bridge rather than the Sagamore. Smaller terminal, shorter queues, a fleet that is easier to book late. The trade-off is fewer direct flights, so it usually only works if your origin city happens to serve it.

• Cape Cod Gateway AirportHYA

  1 mi · about 5 min by road

  Hyannis's own field, right behind the town centre and the only airport physically on the Cape with scheduled service worth planning around. In practice that means Cape Air's short hops to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, plus seasonal mainland service that has come and gone over the years. Timetables here change season to season, so check what is actually flying before you build a trip on it. For most visitors this is how you reach the islands without a ferry queue rather than how you reach the Cape.

• Provincetown Municipal AirportPVC

  2 mi · about 8 min by road

  A single strip out in the Province Lands dunes at the very tip, served by short Cape Air flights from Boston. The flight is a fraction of the drive, runs low over the whole length of the hook, and is worth it for the view alone if the weather is clear. Small aircraft, small weight allowance, and fog cancels flights here more often than anywhere else on the Cape.

• Sagamore Bridge (US-6)

  0 mi

  The front door, built in 1935, and the crossing that feeds the Mid Cape Highway straight down the spine of the peninsula toward Orleans and the Outer Cape. It is also the bottleneck the entire region plans around: summer Friday afternoons southbound and Sunday afternoons northbound back up for miles. A replacement span is funded and permitted, with construction not expected to begin before the winter of 2027/28, so expect the old bridge for the next few seasons and expect roadworks after that.

• Bourne Bridge (MA-28)

  0 mi

  The other 1935 crossing, three miles west, feeding the Bourne rotary and MA-28 down toward Falmouth and Woods Hole. It is the natural approach from Providence and from anywhere west, and it is often the smarter choice even for an Outer Cape trip when the Sagamore queue is backed up onto the highway. Traffic reports from the canal are worth checking before you commit to one or the other.

• Woods Hole Steamship Authority Terminal

  0 mi · about 0 min by road

  The car-ferry port for Martha's Vineyard, at the southwest tip of Falmouth. Crossings to Vineyard Haven run year-round and take about 45 minutes, with seasonal sailings to Oak Bluffs from the middle of May to the middle of October. The thing to know before you drive down: there is very little parking at the terminal itself, so foot passengers park in remote lots up the road in Falmouth and ride a shuttle in. Vehicle reservations for summer crossings go months ahead.

• Hyannis Ferry Terminals

  0 mi · about 0 min by road

  Two docks a short walk apart on Hyannis Harbor handle the Nantucket traffic. The Steamship Authority runs the traditional car and passenger boat at around two hours fifteen minutes, plus a high-speed catamaran of roughly an hour from mid-April to late December. Hy-Line's passenger fast ferries leave from the neighbouring wharf and serve both islands. If you want a car on Nantucket you need the Steamship Authority and you need to book it very early.

• MacMillan Pier, Provincetown

  0 mi · about 0 min by road

  The working pier at the end of the hook, and a genuine alternative to driving the Cape at all: seasonal fast ferries cross Massachusetts Bay from Boston in around ninety minutes and land you in the middle of Commercial Street with no car and no bridge queue. The same pier is where the whale-watch boats and the Long Point shuttle leave from, and where the commercial fleet unloads.

Distances and drive times are typical, not promised — see today's conditions before you plan a tight connection.