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Ferries & Flights to Martha's Vineyard

Ferries from Woods Hole, Falmouth, Hyannis, New Bedford and Nantucket. Planes from Boston, Hyannis, Nantucket, New Bedford and Providence.

 

 

If you need to park your car while visiting Martha's Vineyard, be sure to calculate the cost of parking it for the time you will be away from the mainland. This cost may be $10 to $15 per day.

Woods Hole (Cape Cod) Car Ferry
The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority runs the car ferries from Woods Hole to Vineyard Haven and Oak Bluffs (map). (There are no ferries at all to Edgartown.)

Advance reservations are almost always necessary for a car in summer, though not for walk-on passengers.

You don't really need to take your car to Martha's Vineyard. You can rent a car, bicycle or scooter there, or use the convenient buses. More...

Falmouth (Cape Cod) Passenger Ferry
The Island Queen ferry sails from Falmouth Harbor to Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard seven times daily in summer. More...

Hyannis (Cape Cod) Passenger Ferry
Hy-Line Cruises operates five fast, comfortable catamaran passenger ferries daily, year-round, between Hyannis on Cape Cod and Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard. The voyage takes just under one hour.

From May through September, Hy-Line also operates at least one and as many as three slower, cheaper passenger boats (morning, early afternoon and late afternoon) daily between Hyannis and Oak Bluffs, taking 2-1/2 hours.

New Bedford Passenger Ferry
New England Fast Ferry
(tel 617-748-1428, info@nefastferry.com) operates at least three daily fast catamaran passenger ferries year-round from New Bedford in southeastern MA to Vineyard Haven on Martha's Vineyard. The voyage takes one hour.

Quonset Point RI Passenger Ferry
From May through September, fast catamaran ferries operated by Vineyard Fast Ferry run between Quonset Point, Wickford (North Kingston) RI and Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard. Quonset Point is just off I-95 about 15 minutes' drive south of Providence's T F Green State Airport.

The Quonset Point ferry service does not run as frequently as the Woods Hole, Falmouth or Hyannis services, and it runs only in the warm months, but if you're coming from New York City, the Connecticut Shoreline or Rhode Island, it may save you some time. There is shuttle service from Amtrak's Kingston RI railroad station to the Quonset Point fast ferry dock.

Inter-Island Passenger Ferry
From late-June to mid-September, Hy-Line Cruises, Ocean Street Dock, Hyannis MA (tel 508-778-2600) operates at least one and as many as three daily Inter-Island passenger boats (morning, noontime and afternoon) in each direction on the 2-1/4-hour voyage betweenOak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.

Bicycles and pets are carried on Hy-Line vessels, but not cars. Buy tickets in Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard (tel 508-693-0112), on Straight Wharf, Nantucket (tel 508-228-3949), or at the Hy-Line office at Ocean Street Dock in Hyannis.

By Plane
Cape Air (tel 800-352-0714) flies frequently in summer to Martha's Vineyard Airport from Boston's Logan International Airport (BOS), Hyannis MA, New Bedford MA, Nantucket MA and Providence RI.


Planning Your Visit to Martha's Vineyard

Transportation on Martha's Vineyard

Oak Bluffs

Vineyard Haven

Edgartown

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Martha's Vineyard Homepage

Nantucket

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Steamship Authority Car Ferry, Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard MA

A Steamship Authority car ferry waiting in Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, to load cars and walk-aboard passengers going to Woods Hole MA on Cape Cod.

 

Car Ferry, Martha's Vineyard MA