Pilgrim Monument Provincetown

... arrived with the first pilgrims from the UK. There is monument and museum that we visited. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrim_Monument We had a lobster dinner at the famous "Lobster Pot" restaurant and hit the bars!!  On the second night we ...

... of American history, and yet you don't hear much about it. There is, however, a socking great tower on a hill in town called the Pilgrim Monument and we went to the top of it. The view is worth the entry fee, the little museum isn't really. It doesn't ...

... feet tall and would have been wonderful to climb up in today.  Some of you may be asking yourself why there's a Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown.  Something I did not know until my trip here is that the Pilgrims actually landed on what is now ...

... to the portuguese bakery whack was opposite, so after a quick refuel it was off to visit the town. This included going up the pilgrim monument which had views across the whole area and on a good day you could see across to Boston, not when we were ...

... visible. References: Race Point Light            Pilgrim Monument & Provincetown Museum            Provincetown Historical ...

The Pilgrim Monument was built between 1907 and 1910 to honor the Pilgrims’s first landing of the Mayflower in Provincetown on November 21, 1620. The pilgrims explored the area for 5 weeks and then moved on to Plymouth as the land was not suitable ...

... a brief rest, we walked back to the pier and signed up for the 3:30 dune tour and ventured up to Pilgrim Monument. Despite the clouds we had a pretty clear view down the Cape and even could see Boston! Really enjoyed our time up ...

... to the main street mixed together during our visit.  This was just about as far up as we could get on the Cape and the view from the top of the Pilgrim Monument (celebrating 100 yrs since it was built) went for miles and miles on such a clear day. ...

... could get pictures of Wood End Lighthouse and Long Point Lighthouse.  When we walked back toward the car, we found a Pilgrim monument marking the location the Pilgrims first landed.  We found out that Plymouth was not the first place ...