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Town in Massachusetts, United States
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Harwich is a town of about 13,000 people (2020) in Massachusetts on Cape Cod. It includes the villages of Harwichport, South Harwich, and West Harwich.
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This beach is typically busy in the summer season, and with its warmer waters is a great location for swimming, lounging, and for the kids to chase and catch hermit crabs.
Calm water beach with sandbars. Popular with clammers. Open to non-residents.
Seasonal.
Almost 250 acres of conservation land, featuring a herring run.
Kids can ride Go-Karts and hit the ball in the batting cages for about $6 a person. To ride your own Go-Kart you need to be at least 8 years of age and to ride with someone you need to be at least 16 years of age. Adults can ride with children that are younger than 8 for the same price of $6.
Cape Cod Theatre Company
Breakfast, cash only
Home-made, small-batch, premium-quality ice cream. Serves sundaes, ice cream cones, frappes, and giant banana splits. Very customer friendly and many flavor options to pick from.
Offers a huge selection of grinders and pizzas, calzones, and salads.
Mainly focused on the food, but also has 5 rooms to let.
Tavern with great food.
Seafood with harbor views
Italian cuisine, Chianti.
One of the more innovative choices.
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Rooms and cottage. Breakfast delivered to your room.
This unpretentious roadside hotel is 6 miles from the 19th-century Chatham Light lighthouse and 9 miles from biking and hiking at Nickerson State Park. The conservatively decorated rooms come with free Wi-Fi, flat-screen TVs and coffeemakers, as well as microwaves and minifridges. Kids age 12 and under stay at no charge. Complimentary amenities include parking and breakfast (seasonal). There's also an outdoor pool.
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Every room at Inn on the Beach is just steps from the pristine waters of Nantucket Sound.
Rooms and suites. Clean, updated and contemporary rooms. Oceanfront.
Bed and Breakfast with eight rooms and a large swimming pool. This historic inn is a renovated sea captain's home, a short stroll from the beach.
Nice location on the beach and near village. Concierge.
Harwich Antique Center is a large group shop featuring antique, primitive and vintage furniture, jewelry, coins, paper items, books, military, trains, art glass, fine china, advertising, musical and nautical items and memorabilia. From $1 to high end items. There are weekly free events on everything from furniture restoration workshops to free appraisals to animal rescue benefit days.
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