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Attractions near Boston

15 mi from Boston, USS Texas leads the list

Visits to Assateague Island National Seashore run to about 2.3M a year. Nothing on our list is inside Boston; the 4 places to visit are within 40 miles. The mix takes in 2 museums, an ancient site and a national seashore. For a full day, there is Colonial Williamsburg, 52 mi away.

Attractions nearby
50
within 60 miles
The big one
15 mi
USS Texas
National park units
3
parks & monuments
Ancient site · 15 mi northwest

USS Texas

Second-class battleship of the United States Navy.

The towns around it, and where to stay →

The map

Plotted on the map

The 4 outside town cluster to the northeast.

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Orange: Boston. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors

Everything nearby

The places, one by one

All 50 on the list lie within 60 miles.

Ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places lead and the local favorites follow.

Parks and trails in Boston → · Boston’s history →

Sources: National Park Service · ski areas © OpenSkiMap / OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata · Wikipedia readership · photos via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credits

Colonial Williamsburg: Humberto Moreno, CC BY 2.0 · Busch Gardens Williamsburg: Cjh1452000, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Fort Monroe National Monument: Unknown, Public domain · USS Texas: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain · Jamestown Settlement: Warfieldian, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Werowocomoco: engraved by William Hole, Public domain · MacArthur Memorial: Unknown, Public domain · Norfolk Scope: Cag1970, Public domain · Governor's Palace: Ron Cogswell, CC BY 2.0 · Point Lookout State Park: Acroterion, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Nauticus: Ewelch1, CC BY 3.0 · Mount Trashmore Park: Kubigula (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Chrysler Museum of Art: Gosscj at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Presidents Park: David from Washington, DC, CC BY 2.0 · Assateague Island National Seashore: Fritz Geller-Grimm, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Colonial Parkway: Unknown National Park Service photographer, Public domain · Historic Jamestowne: NPS Photo, Public domain · U-1105: U.S. Navy, Public domain · Water Country USA: Noah Barger, CC BY-SA 4.0 · First Landing State Park: Virginia State Parks staff, CC BY 2.0 · Colonial National Historical Park: No machine-readable author provided. Aude assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 2.5 · Virginia Aquarium: Rlevse, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Patuxent River Naval Air Museum: Acroterion, CC BY-SA 4.0 · The Mariners' Museum: Mytwocents at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Hampton Roads Naval Museum: LittleT889, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Moore House (Yorktown, Virginia): Navin75, CC BY-SA 2.0 · U.S. Army Transportation Museum: Mytwocents (talk) 23:59, 5 February 2008 (UTC), Public domain · Virginia Zoological Park: Mytwocents at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Norva Theatre: Faithlessthewonderboy, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Virginia Air and Space Science Center: NASA Langley Research Center, Public domain · Chrysler Hall: Hampton Road Partnership, CC BY 2.0 · Norfolk Botanical Garden: MamaGeek at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Harrison Opera House: VirginiaProp at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Virginia Living Museum: Ryan Somma from Occoquan, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Air Power Park: William Grimes at English Wikipedia. Later version(s) were uploaded by Ian Duns, Public domain · Muscarelle Museum of Art: Jrcla2, Public domain · Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art: Rachel Hughes, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Ferguson Center for the Arts: Mytwocents at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum: Smash the Iron Cage, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Eastern Shore Railway Museum: Pi.1415926535, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Huntington Park: Mytwocents at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · NASA Visitor Center: Leonard J. DeFrancisci, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Salisbury University Arboretum: Leonard J. DeFrancisci, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Town Point Park: LittleT889, CC BY-SA 4.0

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