June 21, 2022
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Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
© Ronald Reynolds
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Wellfleet Bay provides peace and unmatched beauty on the hillsides and shoreline overlooking Wellfleet Harbor. Extensive trails bring you to a panoramic salt marsh, sandy barrier beach, and pine woodlands, each attracting a wide array of wildlife. The sanctuary features a universally accessible trail and an award-winning "green" nature center with numerous exhibits and aquariums. Please leave dogs and other pets at home.
Location: 291 State Highway Route 6, South Wellfleet, MA 02663
Phone: 508-349-2615
Hours: Open daily through Labor Day, 9 am-4 pm • Trails open daily, dawn to dusk
Summer Birding Programs
Summer Birding Programs
Yellow Warbler © Sherri VandenAkker
Come watch birds with us! We're offering birding walks three times a week this summer. Pre-register now >
Summer Turtle Prowls
Summer Turtle Prowls
It's nesting time for diamondback terrapins! Join us to search for signs of nesting females and learn about our work to protect this native species. Register >
Sanctuary News & Events
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
This summer a series of one-hour birding walks is planned on the sanctuary's All Person's Trail. The programs are designed for people who may not feel comfortable or capable of joining longer walks.
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
It's box turtle breeding season and Wellfleet Bay's turtles are on the move! Visitors are being urged to watch out for turtles crossing the sanctuary's long driveway.
Upcoming Programs
This course is designed to give the novice birder, or those inexperienced with coastal birds, the skills to identify peeps, plovers and other shorebird species. Read more
Take the road less traveled and cover new ground during this active weekend hiking the backwoods, beaches, and dunes of the Outer Cape. Read more
Learn about the ecology of several different coastal habitats, and the plants and animals uniquely adapted to live within them. Read more