From hiking to swimming to camping, here's what to know about visiting the Boston Harbor Islands – from discounted tickets to travel tips.

Travel Your Boston Harbor Islands guide for the 2025 season Island activities this summer include hiking, camping, and sunset clam bakes. Georges Island, part of the Boston Harbor Islands. The ...

Get to the Boston Harbor Islands from ferry terminals in Boston (66 Long Wharf) and Hingham (28 Shipyard Dr.). Costs $24.95 per adult; $17.95 per child; $22.95 for seniors, students and military ...

These islands were a part of city life and commerce, but are now a section of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, the largest recreational open space in eastern Massachusetts ...

Boston's newest destination is a day trip to The Harbor Islands, now a National Park. Just a quick ferry trip from the city, it makes a great family day trip.

Battered by rising seas and scarred by erosion, the Boston Harbor islands have been named one of the country’s 11 most endangered historic sites by the National Trust for Historic Preservation ...

But few will tell you to head straight to the Boston Harbor Islands. It's a place that Jessica Renehan of the Massachusetts Department of Recreation, estimates only about 25-percent of the public ...

Local News Boston Harbor Islands listed among 11 most endangered historic places in the U.S. "They will shrink in size and probably in height." A view of Boston Light on Little Brewster Island ...

The Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park’s seasonal workforce has already been reduced, said Kathy Abbott, president and CEO of the park’s nonprofit partner Boston Harbor Now.

When I, a native New Yorker, suggested to my husband, a born-and-bred Bostonian, that we take the kids on a day trip to the Boston Harbor Islands, he told me in his rich accent that he’d ...