Top Martha's Vineyard Shore Excursions

Explore Martha’s Vineyard efficiently on a private tour designed for travelers with limited time. This narrated drive offers a personalized overview of the island’s towns and scenic coast without navigating on your own. Learn local history and context from a dedicated guide while traveling comfortably between key areas, making the most of a short visit ashore.

If you have limited time but still want to see all that Martha’s Vineyard has to offer, then book this private sightseeing tour. You’ll pass through the island towns and scenic landmarks with a local guide, who will tell you all about the area, and allow time for plenty of photo stops. You’ll also be driven from place to place in a comfortable, luxury minivan.

Enjoy your Martha's Vineyard Private 4-Hour Tour - experience the full Island tour with a few added stops. For example, you might include a stop for lunch, or at scenic areas along the way for some photos, maybe a stop by an art gallery, farm stand, or beach. • Include a stop (or two) to shop in Edgartown, Vineyard Haven • Is Chappaquiddick on your ‘bucket list”? We can definitely include this in your tour. (please note that, depending on traffic for the Chappy ferry, a Chappy tour may take about to 2 hours…and you always have the option to extend your tour beyond 4 hours)Cost of ferry for van & passengers not included. • Experience a Martha’s Vineyard sunset – possibilities include: Menemsha, Cliffs of Aquinnah, West Chop beach or East Chop Light! Let us help you Customize can make your tour and make it special just for you

Knockabout Travel takes you to Martha's Vineyard, with this self-paced audio tour of the most popular town on the island. Discover the origin story of how Oak Bluffs developed from its humble beginnings as a religious camp into a summer destination for business moguls, celebrities, and US Presidents. On the tour, we discuss the development of the Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association, home to the "campground" and the famed gingerbread cottages. Learn how the area around Ocean Park and Circuit Avenue was developed with tourism in mind, and how that conflicted with the original Methodist campers. Along the route, you will be introduced to some of the finer points and lesser-known history of the town, as well as places to grab lunch or a drink. The tour is GPS guided with turn-by-turn directions and audio tracks that play automatically at the right time and place so you're free to simply enjoy the tour.