Location: Orleans
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Top 10 Things to do Good for Kids in Orleans, Massachusetts (MA)
Orleans (/ɔːrˈliːnz/ or-LEENZ) is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts situated along Cape Cod. The population was 5,890 at the 2010 census.
Restaurants in Orleans
1. Blue Claw Boat Tours
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 225 reviews
Sightseeing Boat Tours on Cape Cod. We offer Public and Private Seal Watch Adventure Cruises, Combination Beachcombing and Seal Watching Trips, Relaxing Evening/Sunset Cruises and Private Custom Cruises.
2. Triton Sportfishing
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5.0 based on 21 reviews
Triton Sportfishing offers family and kid friendly Cape Cod fishing trips for striped bass, tuna, bluefish and offshore haddock. Book the Fishing Adventure of a Lifetime!
3. Harbor Seal Boat Tours
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5.0 based on 24 reviews
Enjoy a private tour, with a stop for drinks and light snacks, through Cape Cod's picturesque waterways, the Cape Cod national seashore barrier beach, the Chatham fishing fleet, the large seal colonies which thrive in the waters of Orleans and Chatham as well as the Chatham lighthouse. "Be on your vacation, not someone elses"
4. Cape Kayaking
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 149 reviews
Cape Kayaking provides guided tours in and around the Cape Cod National Seashore. Come explore parts of the Cape that are inaccessible by any other means but personal watercraft. Learn about the geography, ecology and history of Cape Cod while paddling 3 hrs.+ through narrow water trails, inlets, coves and bays. Cape Kayaking provides some of the best sleek and efficient touring kayaks, extremely light weight paddles and PFD's for the entire family. A variety of different tours are available throughout each week that include paddling around seals, birding and learning how to comb the mud flats and sandbars for an array of different clams. Visit CapeKayaking on the wevb for scheduled tours and times.
5. Bird Watcher's General Store
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 15 reviews
Reviewed By moot - Tenbury Wells, United Kingdom
Mike is passionate about birds and this shows in his fabulous store! It’s obviously a popular place and it’s been here for decades! Go for a browse and I’m sure you’ll find something you like!
6. Jonathan Young Windmill
7. Young's Fish Market
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 41 reviews
Reviewed By PekepooEmma - West Springfield, United States
Excellent place to buy fresh fish and it does not get any fresher than “THIS,” I assure you! LOL! The fishermen coming in each day from fishing, unload their catch right here on the dock ( you “HAVE TO COME TO ROCK HARBOR”...unlike any place else, I PROMISE YOU!) and bring right over to this neat little store to be sold, on the spot! They also cook up fresh fish( fried cod when we went and scrumptious...we ate it on breakwater that stretched into the sea, watching the fishing boats leave for their twice daily excursions out to sea) right there! It is such a scenic little fish Mkt., there all of 50 yrs anyway with an impeccable reputation! Their prices are excellent and loved making stuffed quahogs with their fresh catch that day! Yum! Yum! Great prices, great selection and fresher than fresh fish! It doesn’t get any better than that!
8. Skaket Beach
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4.5 based on 432 reviews
Reviewed By P207HHmikec - Albany, United States
We only stayed for a little while - in time to catch a beautiful sunset! It is apparently one of the "Go-to" spots on the Cape to watch the sun disappear into the western sky.
9. Nauset Beach
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4.5 based on 731 reviews
Reviewed By Hotelsnobb
Beautiful strand of sand with all the amenities. Parking is steep (as most beaches on the Cape) at $20, but large lots and plentiful parking. Short walk from the lot passes by changing rooms, food trucks, picnic area, and bathrooms (port a potties).
10. Cape Escape Adventure Golf
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 60 reviews
Reviewed By T8658TCellenh
Cape Escape Adventure Golf is a great mini-golf course. Fun for all ages, relatively simple but varied holes, and the bonus of free fish food to give to the koi in the fish pond afterwards. But IN ADDITION, Cape Escape has a truly great bike rental across the street under the same management: Mike's Bike Trail Rentals. If you want to rent a bike, Mike (really it's his name) runs across the street to help. I was there with my two granddaughters, the younger of whom was not yet steady on a two-wheeler, although well old enough (just a city kid without practice). Mike was fabulous,taking time to help her choose a bike that fit her perfectly. He also helped the girls to adjust their helmets (which he provides). I had chosen Mike's Bikes, after playing miniature golf, because the large parking area next to it gave us a chance to try the bikes before heading to the Bike Trail, which is close by down the road. Our first excursion to the Bike Trail was taken up with a lot of trying by the younger girl (and with the older girl simply riding back and forth between the Orleans rotary and Snow's Hardware on the Bike Trail). After about an hour of this, the younger girl got the hang of it, but we were all done in. So we took the bikes back. As the shortest rental is 4 hours, I asked if we could come back later in the afternoon and take them out again for a bit, and Mike readily agreed!! He says he likes doing this for families, as it's often helpful to go off and take a break or get lunch and come back. I've been going to the Orleans area of the Cape for about fifty years, and I've always rented bikes in downtown Orleans right on the Bike Trail (these bike rentals are reviewed in Trip Advisor). Because Mike's Bikes is tied to the miniature golf course, it's not separately reviewed. But the flexibility and genuine helpfulness of Mike's Bikes is not to be found elsewhere. Furthermore, it's open until 9 pm (the other bike rentals close at 5), so it's possible to go at 5 and get a good long ride in during daylight hours when the Bike Trail is not so crowded. Mike's Bikes is great for families, but also for adults who might like an evening bike ride. And unlike the miniature golf, it takes credit cards (can't explain that). I give Mike's Bikes my highest recommendation for bike rental in the Orleans area.
