'We do feel like we're being invaded': Nantucket agrees to try restricted hours at popular tourist destination

"What happens is that people now with social media are hearing about the bluff walk as a destination place on Nantucket, and the Town of Nantucket's information office and everybody else who is involved with selling Nantucket as a destination is partly responsible for the invasion that happens."

"Appearing before the Select Board last week, Shea said some of his friends on Front Street - a neighborhood just off the bluff walk - have had tourists peer inside their bedroom windows early in the morning."

Nantucket's Select Board unanimously approved limited hours for the Sconset Bluff Walk, a popular tourist destination in the village of Siasconset. Neighbors complained about increased foot traffic from social media influencers and tour groups who trespass on private property, photograph homes, and peer into windows. The new pilot program suggests visitors use the trail between 8:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m., down from the previous 7:30 a.m. to sunset recommendation. The Siasconset Civic Association will hire a bluff docent during July and August to educate visitors. Residents attribute the surge to social media promotion and tourism marketing of Nantucket as a destination.

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