Spectacle Island

Just fifteen minutes from downtown Boston, Spectacle Island offers hiking, swimming, boating, and learning, with a visitor center featuring exhibits on the island’s history and evolution and on alternative energy. Visitors can swim at a sandy beach supervised by lifeguards, with changing rooms and outdoor showers nearby, and can take in panoramic views of the harbor and city from the highest point on Boston Harbor Islands. The island also offers catered evening clambakes, live music on the porch, a marina for boaters, and open spaces well suited to kite flying. Even with early industrial uses evident, Spectacle Island has long been a place for recreation and harbor views, and its beaches are home to shells, pottery, seaglass, and the rare American Oystercatcher with its striking red beak.

Boston, Massachusetts · United States