This is a road with multiple personalities. It actually exists on the other side of the Canal, coming through Wareham and Buzzard’s Bay as Cranberry Highway. Over the Bourne Bridge and it becomes a four-lane divided highway just off the Rotary called MacArthur’s Boulevard.
Here it continues as all-business; car dealerships, fast food places, bank branches. It runs all the way into Falmouth, makes a curve into downtown, past the Falmouth Town Green. Now it is Main Street, lined with shops, churches, bed and breakfasts in antique homes. It winds through Mashpee through several of the villages in Barnstable, including Hyannis, all the way to Orleans. This is not the easiest road to travel, especially in summer, but if you’re patient, open-minded to different atmospheres, you won’t miss out. From mini-golf to fine dining, it’s all here.