View from highway Access to Highway #240 to Cape Cod and Fall River. Access to I-195 North. Access to Sconticut Neck Road to Wise Island. Access to Fort Phoenix State Reservation and Nasketucket Bay State Reservation Areas - South of the highway. Nasketucket Bay State Reservation in Mattapoisett offers 209 acres of wooded trails, open field and rocky shoreline for the public to enjoy. Long Point to Fall River The southernmost tip of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts stretches approximately 100 miles out into the Atlantic Ocean. This wonderful peninsula is known as Cape Cod - the north side shore opens to the cool waters of Massachusetts Bay while the southern beaches reach to the warm and gentle waters of Nantucket Sound. Centrally situated is the Town of Barnstable with shorefront on both north and south coasts.