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Overview
About Coast Guard Beach (Truro)
Why stop
- Seals are sometimes spotted offshore.
Heads up
- A 17-space lot, no lifeguard, and no food vendor.
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Cape Cod Tour Guide
Your drive to Coast Guard Beach (Truro), narrated.
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Cape Cod National Seashore. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
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Coast Guard Beach in Truro0:00 / 0:28
“You're heading toward Coast Guard Beach in Truro, at the end of Coast Guard Road. This is a separate beach from the one in Eastham, with high dunes behind an open Atlantic shore.”
Plays as you drive up to Coast Guard Beach (Truro) in the Parkwolf Cape Cod Tour Guide.
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More about Coast Guard Beach (Truro)
A town-run ocean beachThis is Truro’s town-run Atlantic beach at the end of Coast Guard Road, backed by high dunes.
This is Truro’s town-run Atlantic beach at the end of Coast Guard Road, backed by high dunes. Make sure your directions point to Truro; the better-known Eastham beach is a separate place. The lot has 17 spaces, with 10 reserved for Truro resident beach-sticker holders. In season, a town beach parking sticker is required and daily stickers aren’t sold. There’s no lifeguard or food vendor; a portable toilet is provided in season. Accessible parking is available, but the beach itself isn’t wheelchair accessible and no beach wheelchair is available.
The surf and dunesCome for open shoreline, surf and the sound of waves.
Come for open shoreline, surf and the sound of waves. Visitors often mention seals offshore, but sightings aren’t guaranteed. Some off-season visitors have found it quiet; the small lot limits how many cars can fit when beach use picks up. For a photo, use the access rail as a foreground with the dune on one side and surf along the other, so the frame shows how the beach sits beneath the dune.
A nearby lifesaving stationStation Highland ties this stretch of coast to Cape Cod’s early lifesaving network.
Station Highland ties this stretch of coast to Cape Cod’s early lifesaving network. It was one of the original nine Life-Saving Service stations built when the service reached Cape Cod in 1872, and its ruins are mapped near the beach. The access route to the ruins isn’t established, so treat the history as context rather than a separate stop.
Wildlife
Wildlife in Cape Cod
459 sightingsGray SealMost seen around 11 AMSighting map
84 sightingsCoyoteMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
297 sightingsRed FoxMost seen around 7 PMSighting map
49 sightingsWhite-tailed DeerMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
263 sightingsHorseshoe CrabMost seen around 8 PMSighting map
73 sightingsGreat Blue HeronMost seen around 6 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Cape Cod. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
