Truro Town Profile

Truro, Where Summer Ends the Rural Calm

Teeny-tiny Truro, one stop south of Provincetown and the Cape tip, springs to life in the summer, when the population more than quadruples. Tremendous sand cliffs guard the eastern side of town against the hungry big-ocean surf. Just walk down the dune at Longnook Beach and take a look – you’ll feel like Lawrence of Arabia with a cooler. Bayside beaches offer swell sunsets and a view of the glamorous lights of Provincetown.

Other popular beaches include Cold Storage, Coast Guard and Ryder beac, and one of the Cape's oldest lighthouses, Cape Cod Light. Truro also has many walking and bike trails, as well as Highland Golf Course, the Cape's oldest golf course.

On the commercial side, let’s face it: Truro isn’t a throbbing metropolis – that’s why people like it. But Truro Vineyards is located in the northern part of town. Truro Center for the Arts offers instruction, forums, seminars and art shows.

Housing ranges from deep-woods cottages to oceanfront manors along with antique homes in sweet swales that would make Martha Stewart sigh with envy. The summer cottage that once belonged to famed American artist Edward Hopper is located here, just a part of the landscape he made famous in his paintings. A large portion of the houses are summer homes, making the off-season months quiet.