Highland Beach
Highland Beach is a beach in Town of Truro, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Highland Beach is situated nearby to the hamlet North Truro, as well as near Pond Village.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Highland Light and Highland House.
Highland Light
Museum
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The Highland Light is an active lighthouse on the Cape Cod National Seashore in North Truro, Massachusetts. The current tower was erected in 1857, replacing two earlier towers that had been built in 1797 and 1831.
Highland House
Museum
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The Highland House is a historic hotel building, now serving as a museum, located at 6 Highland Light Road within the Cape Cod National Seashore in Truro, Massachusetts.
Jenny Lind Tower
Tower
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The Jenny Lind Tower is a stone tower located in North Truro, Massachusetts. It is named after the 19th-century opera singer Jenny Lind, who is rumored to have climbed the tower when it was located in Boston to prevent a riot among people who were unable to attend her concert.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Truro and Long Point.
Truro
Truro is a town in Massachusetts on Cape Cod and includes the village of North Truro. Truro has great unspoiled natural beauty and beaches with high sandy cliffs on the ocean side.
Long Point
Locality
Long Point is a peninsula located in Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States, at the extreme tip of Cape Cod, as it curls back in on itself to create Provincetown Harbor. Long Point is situated 5 miles west of Highland Beach.
Highland Beach
- Type: Beach
- Also known as: “Coast Guard Beach”
- Category: landform
- Location: Town of Truro, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.04788° or 42° 2′ 52″ northLongitude
-70.07114° or 70° 4′ 16″ westElevation
33 feet (10 metres)Open location code
87JF2WXH+5GOpenStreetMap ID
node 358275109OpenStreetMap feature
natural=beach
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In Other Languages
“Highland Beach” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Highland Beach (lapyahan sa Estados Unidos, Massachusetts)”
- Cebuano: “Highland Beach”
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Localities in the Area
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