Nantucket, Massachusetts

About Nantucket

Set in the southeastern part of Massachusetts, Nantucket is a small unincorporated community.

Nantucket holds the status of a census-designated place — a real, named community that residents call home, governed at the county level. The community covers 5.82 square miles.

📰 Nantucket News Today

• News - USS Nantucket (LCS 27) Sailors Strengthen Community Bonds During Namesake Visit dvidshub.net · Aug 14
• 'Islanders can't afford to wait': Massachusetts again blocks measure to fund affordable housing for Nantucket The Cool Down · Aug 17
• Police Respond To Stabbing In Downtown Nantucket On Tuesday Nantucket Current · Jun 23
• Nantucket Memorial Airport AOPA · Aug 7
• Cape Air plane door opens mid-flight off Nantucket, Massachusetts: "A bit nerve-wracking" CBS News · Apr 7

Live headlines via Google News — updates through the day.

What Makes Nantucket Unique

• The only place in America named Nantucket — a truly one-of-a-kind name among 32,000+ US communities.
• An unincorporated community — no city hall of its own, which often means lower local taxes and county-managed services.
• Positioned in southeastern Massachusetts, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.

Why People Love It Here

• A tight community feel that bigger cities can't replicate.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 24 miles.

🍽️ Where to Eat in Nantucket

• Cisco Brewers
• Handlebar Cafe — coffee shop (café)
• Sandbar — burger
• Straight Wharf
• B-ACK Yard BBQ
• Black Eyed Susan's
• Brotherhood of Thieves
• Cru
• Easy Street Cantina — mexican
• Island Kitchen

Local spots mapped by the OpenStreetMap community.

🎡 Fun Things to Do

• Fire Hose Cart House · Museum
• Greater Light · Museum
• Hadwen House · Museum
• Historic Mitchell House · Museum
• Maria Mitchell Aquarium · Aquarium
• Maria Mitchell Natural Science Museum · Museum
• Museum of African American History · Museum
• Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum · Museum
• Old Gaol · Museum
• Oldest House · Museum

Attractions mapped by the OpenStreetMap community.

🏞️ Parks & Outdoors in Nantucket

• University of Massachusetts Boston - Nantucket Field Station · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Alter Rock Conservation Area · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Camp Richard reviews ★
• Canopache Open Land · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Coatue · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Coffin Park reviews ★
• Consue Springs reviews ★
• Cr #70 · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Cr #71 · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Dead Horse Valley reviews ★
• Folgar Property · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Gardner Farm · Nature reserve reviews ★

Parks mapped by the OpenStreetMap community · "reviews" opens each park's live Google reviews.

🏫 Schools in Nantucket

• Cyrus Peirce
• Nantucket Elementary
• Nantucket High
• Nantucket Intermediate School

Public schools, U.S. Dept. of Education (NCES) 2023–24 directory.

🏥 Hospitals & Healthcare

• Nantucket Cottage Hospital ★★★ (3/5 CMS rating) · 24/7 ER

Medicare-registered hospitals with official CMS star ratings.

⚡ Quick Facts

🗺️ Map of Nantucket

🏘️ Nearby Communities