Geography
and Transportation
According to the
United States Census Bureau, the
town has a total area of 68.2
km˛ (26.3
mi˛). 54.5 km˛ (21.0 mi˛) of it is
land and 13.6 km˛ (5.3 mi˛) of it
(20.02%) is water. Truro is located just
south and east of the "tip" of Cape Cod,
and is bordered by Provincetown to the
northwest, the
Atlantic Ocean to the north and
east,
Wellfleet to the south, and
Cape Cod Bay to the west. The town
is thirty-eight miles by road to
Barnstable, fifty miles from the
Sagamore Bridge and 105 miles by
road from
Boston.
The topography generally slopes downward
from the Atlantic to Cape Cod Bay sides,
and from south to north. There are
several small ponds throughout town, all
of which combined are smaller than the
Pilgrim Lake, just east of the
Provincetown town line, and just south
of the sand dunes which make up most of
the northern tip of the Cape. Pamet
Harbor, a small inlet, is in the
southern half of the town on the Cape
Cod Bay side, and leads to the Pamet
River. Just south of the lighthouse is a
Coast Guard radar station, equipped with
a doppler satellite tower (which
contrasts awkwardly with the neighboring
stone
Jenny Lind Tower).
U.S. Route 6 is the main route
through town, passing through the town
from south to north on its way to
Provincetown. The "second" portion of
the Cape's
Route 6A begins in the town, tracin
