Cape Cod Sea Camps Properties

Since December 2024, the Town has made significant progress in planning for the future of the Sea Camps. In efforts to gather resident feedback, the Sea Camps Advisory Committee engaged residents through listening sessions and an online survey to better understand their ideas, questions, and concerns regarding the phased implementation of the Sea Camps Comprehensive Plans that were adopted at Town Meeting in May 2024. A summary of key community input is highlighted in the Committee's Sea Camps Comprehensive Planning Resident Feedback Summary Report. 

Over the past several months, the Sea Camps Advisory Committee and Town Administration have been working with an engineering team from Weston & Sampson and EDR to update our approach to phasing and financing for both the Bay and Pond properties. Through a value engineering analysis, the phasing of work for essential infrastructure and amenities have been refined and cost estimates updated for the initial phases of the approved Comprehensive Plans. 

The Community Forum held on September 29, 2025 highlights key findings from community feedback and details of the revised phasing and financing plan that has been developed. The new plan remains consistent with the approved Comprehensive Plans, while reflecting extensive value engineering in response to resident input seeking to limit the costs and tax impacts of implementation. Proposed implementation has been spread out, with emphasis on advancing Bay Property improvements first and lowering overall costs and funding sources other than excluded debt. 

In May 2026, Town Meeting approved two citizens petitions advanced by the Brewster Conservation Trust that focused on the Pond Property. The first petition (Article 28) amended the Sea Camps Comprehensive Plan for the Pond Property that had been originally adopted in May 2024. The new revised plan changed public uses of the 10 acres adjacent to Route 137 from Community Housing and Wastewater to Conservation and Water Supply Protection. The other 60 acres will remain permanently protected by a conservation restriction held by Brewster Conservation Trust and Mass Audubon and it will include a small recreational beach and walking trails connecting to the adjacent Town-owned Long Pond Woodlands conservation land.

The second citizens petition (Article 29) eliminates all other municipal purposes except conservation, open space, passive recreation, water supply protection, and conservation educational uses of the Pond Property in perpetuity. This article would permanently protect the property as conservation land under Article 97 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.  In June 2026, the Select Board approved filing the necessary special legislation to implement these changes, which requires a 2/3 vote of the state legislature.

• Sea Camps Community Forum Video
• Bay Property Revised Phases 1-2 Program Overview
• Pond Property Revised Phases 1-3 Program Overview
• Bay Property Financing Capital Plan FY26
• Pond Property Financing Capital Plan FY26
• Sea Camps FY26-29 Capital Improvement Plan
• Sea Camps Draft Project Schedule
• Revised Pond Property Plan (May 2026)

Public Access to the Sea Camps Bay Property

As part of our ongoing effort to expand public access to the Sea Camps Bay Property, the entire Sea Camps Bay Property is open to the public seven days a week from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. during the summer season.

Residents and visitors are reminded to follow the Select Board policy for First Light Beach and Related Parking, as well as the Board of Health Regulation on Pets Banned from Public Ponds, Landings, Beaches, and Tidal Flats. Under section B-9 of the Select Board policy, all pets must be leashed at all times throughout the entire Bay Property.  

For information about the Community Swimming Pool, including memberships, pool hours, parking, and policies, please visit the Community Swimming Pool page.