Mission Hill
Worth seeing in and around Mission Hill
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.
- 01Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1861 to advance "useful knowledge", the university has played a significant role in the development of many areas of technology and science.
3.1 km · private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, founded 1861 · Wikipedia - 02Boston University
Boston University is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodists with its original campus in Newbury, Vermont.
1.7 km · private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia - 03Museum of Fine Arts Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area.
1.3 km · art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia - 04Berklee College of Music
Berklee College of Music is a private music college in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world.
2.2 km · independent college of contemporary music in Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia - 05Northeastern University
Northeastern University is a private research university with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded by the Boston Young Men's Christian Association in 1898 as an all-male institute before being incorporated as Northeastern College in 1916, gaining university status in 1922.
1.8 km · private university in Boston, Massachusetts, USA · Wikipedia - 06Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, which houses significant examples of European, Asian, and American art. Its collection includes paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts.
900 m · art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia - 07John Hancock Tower
The John Hancock Tower, colloquially known as the Hancock, is a 60-story, 790-foot skyscraper in the Back Bay neighborhood of downtown Boston, Massachusetts. The pinnacle height is 852 feet.
3.2 km · skyscraper in Boston, United States · Wikipedia - 08Emerson College
Emerson College is a private college in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a school of oratory.
4 km · private coeducational university located in Boston, Massachusetts · Wikipedia - 09Prudential Tower
The Prudential Tower is an international style skyscraper in Boston, Massachusetts. The building, a part of the Prudential Center complex, currently stands as the 2nd-tallest building in Boston in surface/roof height, behind the John Hancock Tower.
2.6 km · skyscraper in Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia - 10Copley Square
Copley Square is a public square in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, bounded by Boylston Street, Clarendon Street, St. James Avenue, and Dartmouth Street.
3.2 km · square in Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts · Wikipedia
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Getting to Mission Hill
- Airports
- Boston Logan (BOS), 9 km · Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 73 km · Bradley (BDL), 137 km
- Stations
- Back Bay station, 3.1 km · Copley station, 3.1 km · Kenmore station, 1.9 km · Forest Hills station, 3.8 km · Arlington station, 3.6 km
- Providence/Warwick → Mission Hill73 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · $7–9
- Portland → Mission Hill4074 km · quickest by air, 8h 56m · $440–680
- Hartford → Mission Hill145 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · $13–18
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No local-transport research exists yet for Mission Hill
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 Mission Hill. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inLong Wharf is the most popular; offering MBTA connections to the Charlestown Navy Yard, Logan Airport, Hingham and Hull, as well as a seasonal ferry to Salem.
- Get inBoston Harbor Cruises offers other seasonal ferries, decamping to the Boston Harbor Islands, or heading out to Provincetown.
- Get inThere is another ferry from here to Hingham, and a seasonal one to Winthrop.
- Get inWater taxis are plentiful all along the waterfront, servicing 28 different points between downtown, South Boston, East Boston, and Charlestown.
- Go nextHead down to the wharf and take a ferry out to the Boston Harbor Islands.
From Wikivoyage: Boston/Downtown, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Mission Hill
Mission Hill is 5 km from Boston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Roxburydissolved municipality and current neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States1.5 km
- Allstonneighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States2.8 km
- Fenway–Kenmoreneighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States1.1 km
- Back Bayneighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts3 km
- Jamaica Plainneighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States3 km
- Bay Villageneighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States3.7 km