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Take a sunny-day stroll through Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard. Boutique shopping, restaurants, and entertainment in this year-round port town.
Take a walk on a sunny day around Vineyard Haven on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Vineyard Haven is a year-round working town with independent shops, restaurants and entertainment. Once you dock in Vineyard Haven Harbor, downtown is a short walk up Main Street, which is lined with locally owned shops: clothing, vintage, books, and everything in between. Shopping here keeps the money on the island. The restaurants in Vineyard Haven are downtown and at Tisbury Marketplace, with a few scattered elsewhere: fish markets, casual counters, and a couple of proper dinner rooms. Vineyard Haven has ice cream too.
Sailboats on their moorings off the harbor beach on a sunny day.
Vineyard Haven harbor in low sun, boats on their moorings and the breakwater behind.
A red hydrant in a bed of roses, with an old rusted chain for a curb.
Filmed May 2021The island moves on: shops, signs and prices may differ from what you see here. The text of this guide was checked October 2026.
A covered walkway along a row of shingled shops, with shade on a sunny day.
The old railway car beside the Black Dog Bakery Cafe, picnic tables out front.
Exploring the town? Our complete Vineyard Haven guide covers food, beaches and parking.
Joshua Slocum, first to sail alone around the world, spent his last years farming in West Tisbury and vanished from Vineyard Haven harbor in November 1909. The voyage, the farm called Fag End, the last departure, and what a visitor can actually see: the harbor, a marker stone by a country road, the museum's Slocum papers, and the book itself.
The red bus that gets the loudest cheer in the Edgartown Fourth of July parade belongs to Camp Jabberwocky, a tuition-free summer camp for people with disabilities that has run on the Vineyard since 1953. An islander's account of where it came from and what it is. For anything official, the camp's own site is the source.
Lake Tashmoo in Vineyard Haven hides a century of stories: the 1887 waterworks that watered the town, a golf course where a bull was a hazard, town baseball and the frozen winters when islanders raced ice boats.
Take a guided Jaws tour of Martha's Vineyard with local guide Mike Currid. Walk the real Amity Island in Edgartown and book the “Amity” Walking Tour.
A first-hand look at the Edgartown Historic Walking Tour and “Amity” Jaws Tour with Mike Currid of the Edgartown Tour Company: what to expect, what you'll learn, and how to book.
The complete guide to Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard's year-round port town. Main Street shopping, Black Dog Tavern, Owen Park, and ferry terminal.
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Visit Edgartown on a Tuesday or Wednesday. Same beautiful town, maybe 30% of the weekend crowds. Most restaurants have availability without reservations.
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