The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority, PO Box 284, Woods Hole MA 02543 (tel 508-540-2022), operates these ferryboats:

— Car and passenger ferries from Woods Hole on Cape Cod to Vineyard Haven or Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard. More...

— Car and passenger ferry from Hyannis on Cape Cod to Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard. More...

— Car and passenger ferry from Hyannis to the island of Nantucket. More...

— Passengers-only ferry (no cars) from Hyannis to Nantucket. More...

— Passengers-only ferry (no cars) between Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket (summer only).

(There are no ferries at all to Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard.)

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.

The Steamship Authority operates large and numerous parking lots near its docks, with shuttle buses to take passengers from the more distant lots to the docks.

Low-power AM radio stations near the docks communicate current details on ferry departures, arrivals and parking availability to passengers driving to Woods Hole and Hyannis, directing traffic to distant lots when nearer lots are filled.

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