Fairhaven

Worth seeing in and around Fairhaven

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Q5347467

   Museum ship in Massachusetts, built in 1894

   1.5 km · Wikipedia
2. 02
   New Bedford Whaling Museum

   Maritime museum in New Bedford

   1.6 km · Wikipedia
3. 03
   New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park

   National Historical Park of the United States

   1.7 km · Wikipedia
4. 04
   St. Anthony of Padua Church

   Church

   3.4 km · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum

   House

   2.2 km · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish

   Church in Massachusetts, United States

   2.8 km · Wikipedia
7. 07
   death of Conrad Roy

   Landmark involuntary manslaughter case

   1.3 km · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Butler Flats Light

   Lighthouse in Massachusetts, United States

   3.8 km · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Palmer Island Light

   Lighthouse in Massachusetts, United States

   1.3 km · Wikipedia
10. 10
    United States Customhouse

    National Historic Landmark in New Bedford, Massachusetts

    1.8 km · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Getting to Fairhaven

Airports

Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 44 km · Boston Logan (BOS), 81 km · Bradley (BDL), 152 km

Stations

Fort Phoenix, 1.5 km · New Bedford station, 1.9 km

• Providence/Warwick → Fairhaven

  50 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · $5–7
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• Boston → Fairhaven

  81 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · $8–10
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• Hartford → Fairhaven

  149 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · $14–19
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No local-transport research exists yet for Fairhaven

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Fairhaven. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

If you know how people move in Fairhaven – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.