FREE Events and Programs

Summer is finally here! Check out our FREE upcoming events and programs below.

Save the Harbor/Save the Bay believes that the best way to "save the harbor" is to "share the harbor." Boston Harbor is an incredible urban natural resource that everyone should have access to. We are excited to offer the below events in order to bring everyone out on the water and to our region's urban beaches this summer and beyond!

To join us at any or all of these events and programs, register at the links below. 

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All Access Boston Harbor

FREE cruises for organizations serving youth and teens ages 7-17

Enjoy an interactive presentation about Boston Harbor’s history and the marine environment featuring touch tanks, storytelling, and art.  On the islands, program participants explore the environment and take part in activities led by our program staff including hiking, sports, fishing, fort exploration on Georges, and archaeological treasure hunts on Spectacle.

July 3, 5 Georges Island

July 10, 11, 12 Georges Island

July 17, 18, 19 Spectacle Island

July 24, 25, 26 Georges Island

July 31, August 1, 2 Spectacle Island

August 7, 8, 9 Georges Island

August 14, 15, 16 Spectacle Island

August 21, 22, 23 Spectacle Island

August 28, 29, 30 Spectacle Island

• 9:30am arrival at the Blue Hills Bank Pavilion: Boston’s Outdoor Concert Venue on Boston Harbor at 290 Northern Avenue in South Boston
• All cruises board Bay State Cruise Company’s flagship Provincetown II and depart at 10:30am
• Cruises return at 2:30pm

Register HERE

Contact Winston Daley at daley@savetheharbor.org, 617-451-2860 x1003 with questions

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Share the Harbor Trips

FREE cruises open to the public (youth, teens, adults, and families—all are welcome!)

July 3 Georges Island

July 5 Georges Island

July 16 Georges Island

July 23 Spectacle Island

August 6 Spectacle Island

August 13 Georges Island

August21, 22, 23 Spectacle Island

August28, 29, 30 Spectacle Island

September 29 Spectacle Island

Share the Harbor is funded in part by Mass Humanities, which receives support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Life’s A Beach Events & Boston Harbor Explorers

FREE events on our region’s public beaches, featuring aerialists, acrobats, jugglers, performing pirates and Songs and Stories of the Sea, Art on the Shore, beach games, refreshments, and more!

June 30 Wolly Kids Fest @Wollaston Beach

July 13 Youth Beach Bash + Splash @Carson Beach

July 14 Eastie Marine Science Festival @Constitution Beach

July 14 Winthrop Family Fun Day @Yirrell Beach
July 20 East Boston YMCA Family Fun Day featuring intertidal sand artist Andres Amador @Constitution Beach

July 20, 21, 22 Revere Sand Sculpting Festival @Revere Beach

July 27 Youth Beach Bash and Splash @Carson Beach

July 28 Lynn and Nahant Kids Festival @Red Rock Park

July 28 Hull Illumination @Windemere Harbor
August 5 Lifes's a Beach: Tenean Beach Day @ Tenean Beach

August 10 Youth Beach Bash + Splash @Carson Beach
August 11 Life's a Beach @ Lawn on D

August 15 South Boston Neighborhood House Family Fun Night @Carson Beach at the McCormack Bathhouse

August 25 Dot Beach Day @Malibu Beach

September 15 Hull Endless Summer @Nantasket Beach/ Reservation

All Save the Harbor's free youth environmental education and family programs are made possible with Leadership Grants from Bay State Cruise Company, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, The Boston Foundation, The Coca-Cola Foundation, and Distrigas/ENGIE.

Save the Harbor is grateful for Partnership Grants from Boston Properties - Atlantic Wharf, Eastern Salt Company, Inc., Fan Pier - The Fallon Company, John Hancock Financial Services, The HYM Investment Group, LLC, The Llewellyn Foundation, Massachusetts Bay Lines, Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, Massachusetts Port Authority, National Grid Foundation, P&G Gillette, Lawrence J. and Anne Rubenstein Charitable Foundation, William E. & Bertha E. Schrafft Charitable Trust, Vertex, and The Yawkey Foundation.

Save the Harbor also appreciates Stewardship Grants from The Paul and Edith Babson Foundation, Forrest Berkley & Marcie Tyre Berkley, Blue Hills Bank Foundation, Blue Hills Bank Pavilion, Camp Harbor View Foundation, Circle Furniture, Comcast, Copeland Family Foundation, Inc., The Cricket Foundation, Cronin Group, LLC, The Daily Catch Seaport, Elizabeth Elser Doolittle Charitable Trust, Enbridge, Tom & Lucinda Foley, Foundation for Sustainability & Innovation, Liberty Bay Credit Union, Lovett-Woodsum Foundation, Maine Community Foundation, Mass Humanities, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, Nicholson Foundation, RMR Real Estate Services, Clinton H. & Wilma T. Shattuck Charitable Trust, Skanska, South Boston, Community Development Foundation, Abbot & Dorothy H. Stevens Foundation, and Tishman Speyer.

Save the Harbor would also like to thank our Program Funders 3A Marine Service, Andus Baker & Rowan Murphy Family Fund, The Bay State Federal Savings Charitable Foundation, Beacon Capital Partners, LLC, Boston Bruins Foundation, Andrew J. Calamare & Marianne Connolly, CannonDesign, Circle Furniture, Kevin & Dee Colcord, Dark Horse Capital Partners, Diversified Automotive, Eversource, Tom & Lucinda Foley, Fort Point Framers, Goulston & Storrs PC, Legal Sea Foods, Miss Wallace M. Leonard Foundation, George Lewis - Haven Trust, Liberty Bay Credit Union, Mass Bay Credit Union, Massachusetts Marine Educational Trust, National Park Service, Randy Peeler & Kate Kellogg, SKW Partners, Inc., Abbot & Dorothy H. Stevens Foundation, Storm Duds, Matthew J. & Gilda F. Strazzula Foundation, TD Charitable Foundation, UDR, Kyle & Sara Warwick, and Winthrop Parks and Recreation. Special thanks as well to the hundreds of individual donors for their generosity and to our partners at the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Metropolitan Beaches Commission, the Boston Centers for Youth and Families and the YMCA of Greater Boston for their support.