National Park System units within a drive of Boston

18 National Park System units sit within an estimated two hours of Boston, 13 between two and four hours, and 40 between four and eight. The closest is Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site, about 5 minutes by road from the metro's Census centroid. The metro is the Boston area as the Census Bureau defines it, home to 5,025,517 people in the 2024 estimates.

Each drive time is an estimate made from the straight-line distance between the metro's Census centroid and the unit's listed coordinates, multiplied by 1.25 for roads and divided by 55 mph, so a real trip will often take longer.

Metro centroid Free to enter Charges an entrance fee