Neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts

Roxbury

Roxbury is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Plan a trip to Roxbury→From Providence/Warwick

Every way there

Providence/Warwick → Roxbury
1498 km · quickest by air, 13h 44m · $500–720
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Portland → Roxbury
9 km · quickest by road, 25 min · $1
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Hartford → Roxbury
1400 km · quickest by air, 14h 6m · $530–760
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Roxbury, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Roxbury has

YScheduled flightsBoston (BOS), 8 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 5 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
YFerriesEDIC Pier, 5 km, Cathleen Stone Outward Bound Education Center; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Dorchester, 4 km.

42.325°, -71.095°

How locals move

Getting around Roxbury the local way

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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Hine, Lewis Wickes; National Child Labor Committee Collection (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.