Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
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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 Tuesday through Saturday, 9 am-4 pm • Trails open daily, dawn to dusk
Spring Volunteer Day
Volunteer Day • Saturday, April 22
Celebrate Earth Month and join us in preparing the pollinator garden, turtle gardens, and campground for summer! Register online >
April Vacation Adventures
April Vacation Adventures
Time to think spring! Make plans to have your kids join us for vacation week programs at Brewster or Wellfleet Bay. Register soon >
Sanctuary News & Events
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
Just about every late winter and early spring the sounds of weed whackers and power saws fill the air and hardy volunteers and property staff can be spotted on the often-windswept upper Bay View Trail and the Marsh Cabin. They call themselves the "Cut, Pile, and Burn Team" and they're working hard to protect a rare habitat.
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
It's the time of year Wellfleet Bay's sea turtle team and volunteers join outside researchers at a lab at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to examine the sea turtles that didn't survive the cold-stun season. These sessions at WHOI provide scientists valuable information to help further sea turtle conservation.
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
For April Vacation Adventures week, we're partnering with the Brewster Recreation Department for kids in grades three through five. Children in kindergarten through second grade will meet at Wellfleet Bay.