One day in Cape Coast, Ghana
A day through Cape Coast’s best-known sights that lie close together: Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions, Cape Coast Castle, Cape Coast Castle Museum and Fort McCarthy. 4 stops, about 1.1 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.
The route
- Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western RegionsLandmark · On the map
- Cape Coast CastleCastle · Next to Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions · On the map
- Cape Coast Castle MuseumMuseum · Next to Cape Coast Castle · On the map
- Fort McCarthyCastle · 1 km on from Cape Coast Castle Museum · On the map
4 stops, 1.1 km on foot along the streets: about 14 min of walking.
More for Cape Coast
- Things to do in Cape Coast, Ghana · 6 places to see, led by Cape Coast Castle and Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions
Day trips from Cape Coast
Photo credits
- Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions: Rjruiziii, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Cape Coast Castle: Rjruiziii, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Cape Coast Castle Museum: tootoo22, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Fort McCarthy: Kodex, CC BY-SA 3.0
Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.
Good to know
- Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
- The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
- Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.