North End & Waterfront

A look around

What you’ll be living next to. Swipe through.

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Where it sits

The circle is North End & Waterfront and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.

How far is everything?

From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.

• The Freedom Trail13 min walk1.1 km
• Beacon Hill & Acorn Street17 min walk1.5 km
• Public Garden & swan boats21 min walk1.8 km
• Trinity Church & Copley Square28 min walk2.4 km
• Newbury Street & Back Bay8 min taxi2.7 km
• Fenway Park12 min taxi4.1 km
• Museum of Fine Arts13 min taxi4.3 km
• Harvard & MIT (Cambridge)16 min taxi5.4 km

On your doorstep

What you’re living next to if you stay here.

• 3.Faneuil Hall & Quincy Market — The 'Cradle of Liberty' meeting hall beside a bustling market colonnade of food stalls, shops and street performers. Touristy but fun and central — grab a chowder in a bread bowl and watch the buskers.
• 4.The North End & Paul Revere House — Boston's Little Italy — narrow lanes of trattorias and pasticcerias wrapped around the Old North Church (of 'one if by land') and Paul Revere's 17th-century home. Come hungry, and stay for a cannoli.
• 7.USS Constitution — 'Old Ironsides', the world's oldest commissioned warship still afloat, moored in the Charlestown Navy Yard at the end of the Freedom Trail. Tour the decks for free and cross to the Bunker Hill Monument above.
• 15.Harborwalk & Seaport — The waterfront path loops from the North End around the harbour to the buzzing new Seaport district of restaurants and rooftop bars, with harbour-island ferries and the aquarium en route. Best at sunset with the water and the skyline.
• 17.New England Aquarium — The waterfront aquarium — a giant spiral ocean tank of turtles and sharks, and penguins at the base. A great harbour-side afternoon with kids.
• 18.The Harbor Islands — A ferry to a scatter of green islands in the harbour — a Civil War fort to explore on Georges Island, trails, and city views. Boston's overlooked summer escape.
• 19.The ICA — The Institute of Contemporary Art, a glass box cantilevered over the Seaport harbour — bold shows and a mediatheque that frames the water. Architecture and art in one.