Chatham Fish Pier & Main Street
Chatham Fish Pier
One of Cape Cod's most New England-flavored towns, where fishing boats return with their catch in the afternoon and seals often beg for scraps at the pier.
Chatham is an upscale seaside town at the southeastern tip of Cape Cod. Main Street is lined with white wooden shops, ice cream parlors and seafood restaurants, and on summer Friday evenings there are live band concerts. At the fish pier north of town, commercial fishing boats return in the afternoon to unload cod, haddock and more, which you can watch from the second-floor viewing deck. Seals often cruise around the pier, and seal-watching tour boats also depart from here. Admission is free, but parking is limited.
Opening hours
Open all day (fishing boats mostly return in the afternoon)
Nearby sights
- Chatham Light
- Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge
- Nauset Beach (Orleans)
- Fort Hill
- Cape Cod Rail Trail
- Cape Cod National Seashore (Salt Pond Visitor Center)
- Coast Guard Beach
- Nauset Light