Where Is Cape Cod?

This page will give you some basic geographical location information about Cape Cod.

For a quick visual, have a look at this map of the eastern half of the United States...

(I've given the big view map, for the convenience of anyone who's not familiar with the northeastern United States.)

Now, see the faint-ish little "arm" of land sticking out into the ocean, in the lower right corner of Massachusetts?

That's Cape Cod!

The more you click on that little arm, the more detailed map of Cape Cod you'll be able to see ... so click to your heart's content!


Is Cape Cod a State or a City?

Every now and then someone asks me: "What is Cape Cod? Is it a state? A city? A town? An island all its own?"

Here are the basics:

• Cape Cod is an area within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, about 50 miles south of Boston.
• "The Cape" is a part of Massachusetts, even though we're physically disconnected from the rest of the state by the Cape Cod Canal, which cuts through the land mass east-west from Cape Cod Bay to Buzzards Bay.
• Before the Cape Cod Canal was built in the 1900s, the Cape was a peninsula, surrounded by water on 3 sides.
• Now, it's technically an island ... surrounded by water on all sides.

That's easy! Just type your starting point (town and state) into this handy driving mileage calculator to find out
Who knows? Your Cape Cod vacation might be closer than you imagined!