Free Public Boat Ramps in Massachusetts
Massachusetts has 323 free public boat ramps — launches operated by state fish & wildlife agencies, counties, and federal lands with no access fee. The highest-rated is Petapawag Canoe Launch in Pepperell (5.0/5).
- PepperellNashua River
- 2.boat launch★ 5.0BelchertownSwift River
- 3.Benedict Pond Loop★ 4.7Great BarringtonBenedict Pond
- LenoxHousatonic River
- SouthbridgeWestville Lake
- ChicopeeConnecticut River
- 7.Pauchaug Boat Ramp★ 4.3NorthfieldConnecticut River
- 8.Public boat ramp★ 3.5MashpeeJohns Pond
- MethuenPeter'S Pond
- North AttleboroughWhiting Pond
- TisburyLake Street
- MerrimacLake Attitash
- NortonLake Sabbatia
- WeymouthWhortleberry Pond
- WeymouthFore River
- GloucesterAtlantic Ocean
- BrewsterBaker Pond
- GloucesterAnnisquam River Marshes
- GloucesterSleepy Hollow Pond
- BeverlySalem Harbor
- BrewsterBaker Pond
- AuburnEddy Pond
- SuttonStevens Pond
- ShrewsburyFlint Pond
- HinghamHome Meadows
- HollistonLake Winthrop
- TyngsboroughFlint Pond
- Fall RiverCook Pond
- Fall RiverCook Pond
- GrotonLost Lake
- BedfordGreat Meadows
- ArlingtonSpy Pond
- GrotonBaddacook Pond
- North AdamsPaull Brook
- WalthamLyman Pond
- BostonCharles River
- CambridgeBlessing of the Bay
- AshlandAshland Reservoir
- HollistonLake Winthrop
- FalmouthMill Pond
- BrookfieldQuaboag Pond
- DracutPeter'S Pond
- HollandHolland Pond
- MillburyShiner Hole
- NewburyportTown Creek Marshes
- HalifaxMonponsett Pond
- PlymouthLong Pond
- PlymouthLittle Long Pond
- FalmouthAshumet Pond
- FalmouthGreat Bay
- NewburyParker River Marshes
- NewburyportFrog Pond
- NewburyportFrog Pond
- NewburyportMerrimack River
- ScituateScituate Harbor Marshes
- NewburyportTown Creek Marshes
- KingstonJones River Marshes
- LeverettLeverett Pond
- ConcordWhite Pond
- ConcordWhite Pond
- NewburyportTown Creek Marshes
- SomervilleBlessing of the Bay
- WinchendonLake Denison
- PlymouthAtlantic Ocean
- MashpeeAtlantic Ocean
- BeverlySalem Harbor
- LancasterFort Pond
- FalmouthGreat Bay
- WarehamWankinco River
- MarbleheadAtlantic Ocean
- MarshfieldDuxbury Marsh
- DightonTaunton River
- FreetownAssonet River
- FloridaNorth Pond
- BrookfieldQuaboag Pond
- NewburyportTown Creek Marshes
- WeymouthFore River
- NewburyParker River Marshes
- IpswichIpswich River Marshes
- TyringhamGoose Pond
- GloucesterBuswell Pond
- WeymouthWeymouth Great Pond
- WalthamCharles River
- NeedhamRed Wing Bay
- NahantAtlantic Ocean
- HamiltonChebacco Lake
- HarwichAllen Harbor
- Camp HoweHighland Lake
- Manchester-by-the-SeaWest Pond
- BoxfordFour-Mile Pond
- HollandHolland Pond
- BridgewaterLake Nippenicket
- FalmouthCedar Lake
- BoxfordBaldpate Pond
- RutlandLong Pond
- AmesburyBailey Pond
- DanversSalem Harbor
- HubbardstonWare River
- MedfordMystic Lake
- BrimfieldSingle Swamp
- Fall RiverTaunton River
- BrookfieldGreat Swamp
- CheshireCheshire Lake
- PittsfieldPontoosuc Lake
- PittsfieldOnota Lake
- GillFall Brook
- New SalemQuabbin Reservoir
- MarlboroughAssabet River
- MaynardMillpond
- OrangeLake Rohunta
- OxfordBuffumville Reservoir
- LynnBreeds Pond
- DracutLake Mascuppic
- SturbridgeAlum Pond
- FalmouthGreen Pond
- WestportWestport River
- HopkintonWhitehall Reservoir
- DennisSesuit Creek Marshes
- EasthamSalt Pond
- FalmouthHarbor Head
- WinthropLewis Lake
- SalisburyAllen Creek
- StockbridgeStockbridge Bowl
- EasthamSalt Pond
- WellfleetAtlantic Ocean
- EasthamSalt Pond
- FairhavenNew Bedford Harbor
- SturbridgeSingle Swamp
- WestfieldHorse Pond
- FalmouthGreen Pond
- FalmouthWaquoit Bay
- FalmouthWaquoit Bay
- SalemSalem Harbor
- NantucketThe Creeks
- CentervilleWequaquet Lake
- TisburyLake Street
- ConcordConcord Reservoir
- CotuitLovells Pond
- NantucketHither Creek
- Oak BluffsSengekontacket Pond
- SomersetTaunton River
- HaverhillLake Pentucket
- OrleansBaker Pond
- MontereyLake Garfield
- TownsendSquannacook River
- SandwichPeters Pond
- East BridgewaterSatucket River
- MashpeeLittle River
- SandisfieldUpper Spectacle Pond
- Oak BluffsLake Street
- YarmouthBass River
- GoshenHighland Lake
- MattapoisettEel Pond
- OtisShaw Pond
- SwanseaCole River
- CantonPonkapog Pond
- RichmondRichmond Pond
- QuincyFore River
- EasthamptonConnecticut River
- DennisBass River
- ShrewsburyLake Quinsigamond
- MedfordMystic Lake
- NorthboroughLittle Chauncy Pond
- WarehamAgawam Mill Pond
- BrewsterSheep Pond
- SandwichScorton Creek
- ChilmarkAtlantic Ocean
- HaverhillLake Pentucket
- MontereyLake Buel
- LeominsterWhalom Lake
- AshlandSudbury River
- LudlowSpringfield Reservoir
- WindsorWindsor Pond
- WaylandLake Cochituate
- PlymouthLittle South Pond
- WarehamWareham River
- YarmouthParkers River
- DennisBass River
- TauntonBig Bearhole Pond
- HopkintonNorth Pond
- HanoverIndian Head River
- HudsonAssabet River
- GeorgetownRock Pond
- RochesterMary'S Pond
- TollandOtis Reservoir
- SpencerSugden Reservoir
- BillericaWinnings Pond
- GrovelandJohnson Pond
- FairhavenNasketucket Bay
- SouthwickLimon Pond
- WilmingtonSilver Lake
- BrewsterSchoolhouse Pond
- BecketCenter Pond
- FraminghamFarm Pond
- ClintonSouth Meadow Pond
- PepperellNashua River
- LawrenceMerrimack River
- WoburnHorn Pond
- HardwickHardwick Pond
- MiddleboroughTispaquin Pond
- NorwellJacobs Pond
- AshlandHopkinton Reservoir
- RochesterSnipatuit Pond
- BerkleyTaunton River
- BarnstableHamblin Pond
- AshlandSudbury River
- YarmouthBass River
- TauntonLake Sabbatia
- DartmouthApponagansett Bay
- HubbardstonMoosehorn Pond
- HatfieldConnecticut River
- BarnstableShubael Pond
- MillisCharles River
- WaylandLake Cochituate
- NorthfieldConnecticut River
- LeeLaurel Lake
- BourneGreat Herring Pond
- PlymouthSandy Pond
- IpswichHood Pond
- HopkintonHopkinton Reservoir
- WarehamWareham River
- BrewsterSlough Pond
- BarnstableBarnstable Harbor
- MashpeeMashpee/Wakeby Pond
- West TisburyTisbury Great Pond
- LowellConcord River
- EdgartownCape Poge Bay
- West BridgewaterWest Meadows Pond
- AtholMillers River
- LowellMerrimack River
- SunderlandConnecticut River
- MethuenMerrimack River
- HarwichAllen Harbor
- HollandHolland Pond
- West StockbridgeCranberry Pond
- PalmerForest Lake
- ChicopeeConnecticut River
- SomersetTaunton River
- WarehamWankinco River
- BostonCharles River
- PittsfieldHousatonic River
- SpringfieldChicopee River
- LenoxHousatonic River
- West BridgewaterHockomock River
- ReadingIpswich River
- DoverCharles River
- Great BarringtonHousatonic River
- DedhamCharles River
- FraminghamSudbury River
- FreetownLong Pond
- New BedfordNew Bedford Harbor
- New BedfordNew Bedford Harbor
- Fall RiverTaunton River
- MethuenMerrimack River
- AquinnahAtlantic Ocean
- CheshireCheshire Lake
- PalmerSwift River
- AshlandSudbury River
- OrangeMillers River
- BelchertownQuabbin Reservoir
- WebsterWebster Lake
- SpringfieldFive Mile Pond
- AtholLake Ellis
- NantucketHither Creek
- LudlowChicopee River
- WestboroughLake Chauncy
- North AdamsWindsor Lake
- EasthamptonNashawannuck Pond
- AttleboroBungay River
- WilbrahamChicopee River
- YarmouthLewis Bay
- CharltonBuffumville Reservoir
- SouthwickMiddle Pond
- East BridgewaterSatucket River
- BridgewaterTown River
- DouglasWallum Lake
- HaverhillLake Saltonstall
- North AttleboroughWhiting Pond
- HinsdaleAshmere Lake
- New MarlboroughYork Lake
- HansonWampatuck Pond
- NorthboroughBartlett Pond
- ChelmsfordMerrimack River
- WareWare River
- EdgartownKatama Bay
- New MarlboroughThousand Acre Pond
- SunderlandCranberry Pond
- WorcesterIndian Lake
- YarmouthLong Pond
- GloucesterAtlantic Ocean
- OtisBig Pond
- West BrookfieldWickaboag Pond
- HaverhillMerrimack River
- LittletonLong Pond
- HardwickQuabbin Reservoir
- WestfordLong Sought-For Pond
- NewburyParker River
- GraftonQuinsigamond River
- AtholMillers River
- StockbridgeHousatonic River
- NorthbridgeBlackstone River
- WilliamstownHoosic River
- HardwickWare River
- LancasterNashua River
- AtholMillers River
- FraminghamSudbury River
- MedwayCharles River
- RutlandWare River
- HardwickWare River
- North ReadingIpswich River
- WilbrahamChicopee River
- MillisCharles River
- GraftonBlackstone River
- WinthropAtlantic Ocean
- Oak BluffsSengekontacket Pond
- ErvingLaurel Lake
- ShrewsburyJordan Pond
- SalemSalem Harbor
- FairhavenBuzzards Bay
- QuincyFore River
Frequently Asked Questions
Are public boat ramps free in Massachusetts?▾
Most public boat ramps in Massachusetts are free to use — they're operated by state fish & wildlife agencies, counties, and federal lands. BoatLaunchMap lists 323 free public launches in Massachusetts. Some charge a small daily launch fee or require a parking permit.
How many free public boat ramps are in Massachusetts?▾
Massachusetts has 323 free public boat ramps mapped on BoatLaunchMap, each with GPS coordinates, ratings, and directions.
What is the highest-rated free boat ramp in Massachusetts?▾
Petapawag Canoe Launch in Pepperell is the highest-rated free public boat ramp in Massachusetts, with a 5.0/5 Google rating.