Custom House Maritime Museum
Explore the region’s seafaring stories in the historic custom house, with current tour and exhibition information.
Visitor details ↗North Shore & Cape Ann / Find your place
Newburyport
Riverfront · Maritime collections · Coastal nature
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A place worth knowing
Make room for Newburyport.
Let the Merrimack waterfront lead into a maritime museum, or plan a separate nature outing beyond downtown. Newburyport is a base for both city pauses and coastal landscapes.
A few good ways to begin.
Choose a stop, then leave room for the unexpected.
Maudslay State Park
Choose a walk among estate landscapes, meadows and riverside scenery using current park access and trail information.
Visitor details ↗Parker River National Wildlife Refuge
Plan a separate Plum Island nature visit using current refuge access, wildlife-protection and beach-closure information.
Visitor details ↗Eat & drink
Explore local restaurants, cafés and places to pause around Newburyport.
Explore local dining ↗Stay awhile.
Choose a base for your days around Newburyport. Compare dates, location and the operator’s booking terms.
Newburyport area places to stay ↗A little farther along.
Your next good stop.
Find a business. Put yours on the map.
Browse published places around Newburyport. Business details are supplied by their owners.
Photo credits & visitor sources
Real Massachusetts photographs, resized and converted to WebP. Displayed crops may vary; each image retains its listed license.
- Newburyport, Massachusetts.jpg — Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0. Resized and converted to WebP; website may crop for layout.
- Friendship of Salem.JPG — Fletcher6, CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized and converted to WebP; website may crop for layout.
- 2012 harbor in Gloucester Massachusetts USA 8393985889.jpg — Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0. Resized and converted to WebP; website may crop for layout.
Visitor information: Salem, Gloucester, Newburyport. Check current access, hours, weather and booking terms. Photos may show nearby attractions rather than the town center.
County outlines: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 cartographic boundaries. Town markers are approximate centers, not entrances or routes. WTDO regions are editorial discovery areas, not official tourism boundaries.