Truro

The Town of Truro is a small, rural community on Outer Cape Cod. The quaint and unique spirit of "Old Cape Cod" is easy to feel in Truro. No other Cape Cod town has changed so little since its inception. Truro is rich in history and strongly tied to the sea.

In Truro are located one of the most beautiful beaches on Cape Cod Bay and some of the most magnificent beaches on the Atlantic Ocean. Town's beaches, dunes and landscape of rolling hills are an attraction to tourists and vacationers.

In Truro is located the famous Cape Cod Light, Cape Cod's oldest lighthouse, which was first erected in 1797 and replaced by the current structure in 1857. Endangered by constant erosion of the 117-foot cliff it rested on, it was recently moved back from shore to a safer distance.

The community offers a beautiful landscape of moors, dunes and marshes.

For most tourists, this town is just the last stop on the way to Provincetown. But for those who go off the beaten path, it offers a hauntingly beautiful landscape of moors, high dunes, estuaries and marshes.

A collection of 17th Century antiques, period firearms, shipwreck pieces and different fishing and whaling implements are revealed in Highland House, now the Truro Historical Museum.