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Title: Bicycling
Notice:Bicycling for Fun
Moderator:JAMIN::WASSER
Created:Mon Apr 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3214
Total number of notes:31946

2341.0. "P'town to Springfield" by SHALOT::ELLIS (John Lee Ellis - assembly required) Tue Jul 07 1992 09:42

    
    My friend Pat would like to bike from Provincetown to Springfield,
    Mass. (Longmeadow, actually).  Anyone have route suggestions?
    
    The map makes it look like two days, but I may be wrong.  Best route
    seems to be heading down Rte. 6A to Falmouth, Rte. 28 north, then
    near Woonsocket RI and skirting Connecticut.
    
    Thanks.
    -john
    
    PS: Is there public transportation (helicoptor? ferry?) from Boston
    to Provincetown?
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2341.1ferry service to P'Town ...CUPTAY::BAILEYA pirate looks at 40.Tue Jul 07 1992 11:019
    There is a ferry that runs from Boston to P'Town ... it's operated by
    the Bay State Cruise Company (phone # 617-723-7800).  One way passage
    is $15 per person ... and $5 for a bicycle.
    
    Alternately, there's also a ferry from Plymouth to P'Town ... Cape Cod
    Cruises (508-747-2400).
    
    ... Bob
    
2341.2115 per day?TFH::DONNELLYTake my advice- Don't listen to meTue Jul 07 1992 14:0516
>    My friend Pat would like to bike from Provincetown to Springfield,
>    Mass. (Longmeadow, actually).  Anyone have route suggestions?
>    The map makes it look like two days, but I may be wrong.  Best route
>    seems to be heading down Rte. 6A to Falmouth, Rte. 28 north, then
>    near Woonsocket RI and skirting Connecticut.

p'town to sturbridge is 200 mi per the pmc route.  springfield is another 30 
as the crow flies.  falmouth is way south of the shortest route.  there must
be an abundance of good routes as ct and ma are fairly rural in these areas.

>    PS: Is there public transportation (helicoptor? ferry?) from Boston
>    to Provincetown?

there is a boston/p'town ferry.  but i don't know much more.

-craig
2341.3details on PMC route?SHALOT::ELLISJohn Lee Ellis - assembly requiredTue Jul 07 1992 14:2711
    
    Thanks, Craig.  200+30 miles seems like a nice two-day jaunt.
    (Pat did 171 miles with me on Saturday, starting in the mountains,
    so she should be up to 115 mpd.)
    
    Can you give details about the PMC route?  If you did the Pan Mass
    Challenge, do you think the route was reasonable for a solo rider?
    
    Thanks again (also to .1 for the ferry details!).
    
    -john