Events

Activities

Download the 2024 “Spring Fling Partnership Event” flyer.
Celebrate spring and explore the seashore’s resources, beauty, and history through activities and events offered by seashore partners and park rangers. All activities are free, except as noted. Listings include activities for youngsters.

Every summer, the Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore financially supports a full season of free activities from concerts to lectures for the entire family.  Evening programs & concerts are presented at the Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham. Music events have ranged from original bluegrass, modern folk, Americana, and more, to classical offerings by the Outer Cape Chorale and “Symphony at the Seashore” with the Cape Symphony Orchestra. Guest speakers have included noted science and nature experts from shark specialist Dr. Greg Skomal to bird expert Mark Faherty, Science Coordinator at MA Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. Friends also co-sponsors with Park Concessioner Far Land at the Beach, a Summer Concert series at Herring Cove Beach in Provincetown. Friends also sponsors an annual science symposium “Science in the Seashore” and a winter film series at Salt Pond Visitor Center. All photos courtesy of NPS.
Link here to National Park Service programs and activities.

Park Historian Bill Burke’s program
“A Promise of the Seashore”, an in-depth look (60 minutes) at the History of the establishment of
CAPE cod national Seashore now available in its entirety on YouTube.
“A Promise of the Seashore”