South Boston
South Boston is a densely populated neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, located south and east of the Fort Point Channel and abutting Dorchester Bay.
South Boston is a densely populated neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, located south and east of the Fort Point Channel and abutting Dorchester Bay. It has undergone several demographic transformations since being annexed to the city of Boston in 1804. The neighborhood, once primarily farmland, is popularly known by its twentieth century identity as a working class Irish Catholic community. Throughout the twenty-first century, the neighborhood has become increasingly popular with millennial professionals.
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Getting to South Boston
- Airports
- Boston Logan (BOS), 4 km · Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 75 km · Bradley (BDL), 142 km
- Providence/Warwick → South Boston75 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · $7–10
- Portland → South Boston4078 km · quickest by air, 8h 48m · $430–670
- Hartford → South Boston149 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · $13–18
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for South Boston
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 South Boston. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inOne of the most popular and frequent are Water Taxis.
- Get inHop aboard a real ship and take the Bay State Cruise Company's Provincetown Fast Ferry, running from the pier with the Seaport Hotel during the summer months.
- Go nextBut boats are available to ferry you to the Boston Harbor Islands seasonally.
- Go nextIf you have 100 bucks and 90 minutes, climb aboard the fast ferry to Provincetown.
From Wikivoyage: Boston/South Boston, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to South Boston
South Boston is 3 km from Boston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.