Woods Hole Car Ferries,
Buses & Transportation

Car Ferry From Woods Hole to Martha's Vineyard
The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority, PO Box 284, Woods Hole, MA 02543 (tel 508-540-2022), operates car ferries from Woods Hole to Vineyard Haven and Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, and from Hyannis to Oak Bluffs (Martha's Vineyard). (There are no ferries to Edgartown.)

Separate car ferries and passenger-only ferries sail from Hyannis to the island of Nantucket, and between the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. More...

The car ferries also carry passengers without cars, and passengers with bicycles.

You should have a reservation to ship your car off-season (November through May), and you must have a car reservation in the high-summer months from mid-June through early September.

Buses to/from Woods Hole
In high summer, Bonanza runs buses between the Steamship Authority car ferry docks in Woods Hole and Boston, Providence RI and New York City.

Although bus schedules leaving Woods Hole are designed to work in conjunction with ferry arrivals, connections are not guaranteed because bad weather can make the ferry late, and the bus does not wait for a late ferry. It departs according to its published schedule.

Do not take the last ferry of the day from Martha's Vineyard to Woods Hole (or to Hyannis) and count on getting the last bus out—you may in fact be able to do it, but it's not dependable. Take an earlier ferry, or be prepared to perhaps spend the night in Woods Hole or Falmouth.