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.
It's hatchling season! Join us on a patrol to look for hatching diamondback terrapin nests. Sign up soon! >
Our weekly birding programs are a great opportunity to look for fall migrants! Preregister now >
Having protected more than 400 nests, Wellfleet Bay Diamondback Terrapin volunteers and staff are gearing up for the second half of the season—and hatchlings!
Wellfleet Bay's sea turtle rescue volunteers and staff were treated recently to the rare opportunity to release healthy sea turtles back into a warm ocean.