What to do and see in Truro, Massachusetts (MA): The Best Hidden Gems Things to do

January 17, 2022 Brandee Mangan

Truro /ˈtrɜːroʊ/ is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, comprising two villages: Truro and North Truro. Located slightly more than 100 miles (160 km) by road from Boston, it is a summer vacation community just south of the northern tip of Cape Cod, in an area known as the "Outer Cape". English colonists named it after Truro in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
Restaurants in Truro

1. Reel Deal Fishing Charters

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Reel Deal Fishing Charters

Reel Deal Fishing Charters offers daily fishing trips for striped bass, blues, bluefin tuna and more! Anglers of all ages and skill levels welcome. Voted Cape Cod's Best Fishing Charter in 2017 by NECN's Cape Cod's A-List. Fish with the best on your next Cape Cod visit!

2. Hopper House Tours

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Hopper House Tours

Every HOPPER HOUSE TOUR is a private tour for your group ONLY! YOU WILL DRIVE YOUR OWN CAR - only ONE car may follow guide's car. Two-way radios will be used to communicate car-to-car. Fall is such a great time for a tour that takes you on back roads and hidden places to see the vistas and beautiful light where Edward and Josephine Hopper painted prolifically in the early 1930s. Hopper painted the tour guide's family farm five times as well as nearby homes where she has been a guest numerous times. You will enjoy seeing rural Truro & learning about a combination of art, history, architecture & the changes to the treeless landscape since Hopper painted. Lisbeth Wiley Chapman, Tour Guide, will meet you in the parking lot for Highland Light Lighthouse, North Truro, driving a light blue Subaru Crosstrek. One tour a day at 9:30 a.m. - only one car at a time, so please load up your family & friends. Bathrooms are very scarce this year, so plan accordingly. Go to bottom of website to book.

3. Reelezee Sport Fishing Charters

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Reelezee Sport Fishing Charters

We are a family friendly Sport Fishing Charter service. We specialize in helping novice to mid level anglers and families enjoy a memorable day on the water. Older folks appreciate the fully enclosed Salon and young families welcome the below deck private bathroom. We have an excellent, experienced full time mate who is a High School teacher in the “off” season. He gets along easily with young children and young adults. We offer lobstering and private whale watches as part of a combination fishing charter. We depart daily from the scenic Pamet Harbor in Truro or Provincetown Harbor. We have one boat, The Nauset, and Joe Francis, with over 40 years of experience, will captain every charter that is booked. We are not a booking agent for other captains. Let us help you make your vacation to the outer Cape a memory that will last a lifetime.

4. Highland Light

27 Highland Light Rd, Truro, MA 02652 +1 508-487-1121 http://www.highlandlighthouse.org/
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Highland Light

This lighthouse was the first light sailors glimpsed when reaching this side of the Atlantic Ocean.

Reviewed By iheartbigpapi - Boston, United States

You can’t pass up seeing the first light house in Cape Cod, which was commissioned by then President George Washington and built in the late 1700s.

5. Longnook Beach

Long Nook Road, Truro, MA https://www.truro-ma.gov/beach-office/pages/longnook-beach
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Longnook Beach

Reviewed By Wanderer802534

Beautiful Beach - Like others said there is a dune that you need to walk down (and up!) We rented in Truro so we qualified for a beach pass. (June through Labor Day). We were curious about trying out a nude beach, so we pre-planned to visit this one before our weekly guests at our cottage showed up. Reading the other reviews here, we strolled about 10 minutes to the right and unpacked . We were the 1st ones there (9:30 am) so we were unsure if were we ok, but set a blanket out and disrobed. It was fun. We got a little nervous as people came near us , but the second couple that came set up about 20 yards from us and started to take their clothes off too. We got comfortable and did go to the water a few times.2 issues on the day we went 1st it was windy and the sand kept blowing. 2nd was the people going for a "walk" on the beach sneaking a peek. Overall we will go back maybe in Sept if not next year - Came back during the week to see the sunset and seals with family and friends

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