Destinations · Massachusetts
Rockport
MA · 42.6556, -70.6208
Essex Coastal Scenic Byway, Coastal Byway and Independence Byway are signed byways within 30 miles of Rockport, Massachusetts.
Get in
Interstate 95 to Route 128 to Route 127. Downtown has parking meters ($.25 per half-hour) and often has no spots. Rockport has a free parking facility, the Blue Gate Parking Lot (open June-Oct), located as you arrive on Route 127 about 1/4 mi (400 m) past the Rockport Visitor Information booth. From the parking lot, it is about a 3/4-mile walk to downtown Rockport, but a shuttle to town only costs $1 each way.
The same roads run past Portsmouth, where they are ranked and described in full.
Day-trip loops
Ready-made loops for Rockport are growing. What is within reach is measured today; plan a live day trip and the engine routes it now.
Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- Essex Coastal Scenic Byway · 4 mi
- Coastal Byway · 18 mi
- Independence Byway · 21 mi
Lookouts
- Eagle Rock · 5 mi
- Wildlife Viewing Platform · 14 mi
Named places
- Mill Pond Park · 0 mi
- Front Beach · 0 mi
- Millbrook Meadow · 0 mi
- Barletta Park · 0 mi
- Harvey Park · 0 mi
- Inner Harbor Park · 0 mi
- Star Island Park · 0 mi
- Town Conservation Land · 0 mi
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Gloucester · 3 mi
- Essex · 8 mi
- Manchester · 9 mi
- North Shore · 10 mi
- Hamilton · 11 mi
- Ipswich · 11 mi