Martha's Vineyard Travel Guide: Reviews, photos, & videos

Estimated travel time: 45 minutes by ferry (from Wood's Hole on Cape Cod, MA)  
 
You can only get to Martha’s Vineyard by plane, ferry or a private boat. There are no bridges or tunnels connecting the island to the mainland. You can take a ferry from one of the six different ports (on Cape Cod and on the mainland) that serve the island, but if you’d like to bring your car across with you, your only option is the Steamship Authority ferry that leaves from Wood’s Hole on Cape Cod, which is also the only ferry operating year-round. Flying into Martha’s Vineyard is expensive, but growing competition is pressing the fares down.

• Current conditions

  

  Mostly clear this evening...then becoming partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph...becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
  Low: 34° F.

• Tomorrow's forecast

  
  Sunny. Highs around 60. Southeast winds around 5 mph... Becoming south in the afternoon.
  Hi: 54° F, Low: 36° F.


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  Jessica_Nunemaker

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  Hold On To Your Hats!

  08/12/2008

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  Martha's Vineyard, MA, USA

  The Flying Horses Carousel was built in 1876, right in the middle of prim and proper Victorian times. Imagine the fine, well to do crowd arriving by horse drawn carriage to hail the opening of The Flying Horses Carousel in Oak Bluffs. Men in soft felt hats or bowlers, ladies ruffled, bustled, and beribboned , engaging in quiet, polite conversation while children danced around, hoping for a ride. What a remarkable sight that must have been - and still is today. The Flying Horses Carousel doesn’t have horses that move up and down nor is it multileveled. What it possesses, however, is an important glimpse into a long ago past. Glass eyes of the horses contain tiny little animal charms to delight those young and young at heart. Real horse hair manes as well as the intricate hand carved detail on the carousel itself will capture the hearts and minds of any child, no matter how old. Try to win a free ride with the Brass Ring Game or just “pony up” a more than reasonable $1.50 for a ride on the oldest operating and much beloved antique carousel, The Flying Horses.

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  Cape Cod and Islands Association of Realtors

  08/31/2008

  This link connects to realtors in the Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard area.

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