4 Hour Bike Rental | South Dennis
Product ID: 78923
Supplied by: Dennis Cycle Center
Dennis Cycle Center is a full-service bicycle shop located directly on the Cape Cod Rail Trail that rents a variety of the latest bikes for the whole family. They pride themselves in providing friendly, easy, and simple service every day to every guest. Visit their bright open showroom today and cruise away on a comfy rental, sure to put a smile on your face!
What's included
- Clean, well-maintained equipment
- Helmets (for all rentals, even week!)
- Locks
- Cape Cod Trail Map
- Top-notch Customer Service
- PARKING for Customers
- Drinks and Snacks To-Go ($)
- Drinks/Snacks available onsite for purchase to take on your ride
Additional Information
Persons 16 Years of Age and younger MUST wear a helmet per Massachusetts State Law. Helmets are always provided for FREE with rental.
No group rentals over 8 people.
Cancellation policy
If you need to make changes or cancel reservation, you will need to do so no later than 48 hours in advance.
Overview
Dennis Cycle Center is a full-service bicycle shop located directly on the Cape Cod Rail Trail that rents a variety of the latest bikes for the whole family. They pride themselves in providing friendly, easy, and simple service every day to every guest. Visit their bright open showroom today and cruise away on a comfy rental, sure to put a smile on your face!
The Cape Cod Rail Trail...A Scenic Trail From Yarmouth to Wellfleet
A Brief History
Before the first railroad tracks were laid, the Cape was a relatively isolated area, accessible only by packet boat or stagecoach. By 1848, the Old Colony Railroad Company laid tracks that connected Boston and Sandwich. (continues below)
The Cape Cod Rail Trail
The Cape Cod Rail Trail follows a former railroad right-of-way for over 25 miles through the towns of Yarmouth, Dennis, Harwich, Brewster, Orleans, Eastham and Wellfleet. Its paved surface, few hills, and well-marked automobile crossings make it ideal for cyclists.
Cranberry bogs, forests, wetlands, parks, lakes and ponds are common sights. There is even access to the Cape Cod National Seashore via the trail.
There are places to eat, swim, and use the restroom along the way, making a day trip with the family fun and easy!
Halfway up the trail from our location is Nickerson State Park. (10 mi.) There are restrooms at the entrance and a paved bike trail looping through the park.
Railroad track extensions continued and by 1873, Old Colony had linked Boston with Cape Cods outermost point of Provincetown, offering a miraculously short, five-hour journey. As the Capes popularity as a summer resort increased, the railroad was heavily used to transport visitors from New York and Connecticut, as well as other parts of Massachusetts.
With the growing number of visitors came train-loads of food and other provisions needed to meet their needs. But the railroads importance was soon surpassed by the automobile. Bridges to carry cars over Cape Cod Canal were opened in 1935, and in 1937 passenger service to the towns east of Dennis ended. Trains continued to haul freight until the mid-1960s, but then the tracks were torn up and the station-houses were razed or vandalized. If you look carefully as you ride along the trail, you can still see occasional relics of the Capes rail days.
