Massachusetts fairs you can reach without a car
Of the 96 fairs and festivals we track, 10 have an MBTA station or regional bus stop within 2 miles. They’re grouped below by the station or operator you’d actually travel on.
How to read the distances. Where we’ve confirmed a venue’s exact location we give a real walking time (6 events so far). Where we only know the town, we show a straight-line distance from the town centre and label it an estimate. The venue could be further out.
A few events are marked as running across several venues instead of showing a distance. Those are festivals spread over a whole downtown or a parade route, where we know exactly where they happen but a single walking time would be misleading rather than just imprecise. Their venue lists are on the event pages.
Timetables shown on event pages are published schedules, not live predictions. Always confirm with the operator before you travel, and check the last departure if you’re staying late.
By MBTA station
3 events across 3 stations.
Brockton1
- Brockton Farmers MarketJun 5 – Oct 30
Brockton · Southeastern Massachusetts · 4 min walk from Brockton
Fitchburg1
- Fitchburg Farmers MarketDate not confirmed
Fitchburg · Central Massachusetts · 14 min walk from Fitchburg
Salem1
- Salem Haunted HappeningsOct 1–31
Salem · Northeast Massachusetts · 4 venues near Salem
By regional transit authority
Beyond Greater Boston, these events sit near a regional bus stop. Only events without a nearby MBTA station are listed here, so nothing appears twice.
Greater Attleboro Taunton Regional Transit Authority4
GATRA
- Plymouth Farmers MarketMay 14 – Oct 29
Plymouth · Southeastern Massachusetts · 1 min walk from Plymouth
- King Richard’s FaireDate not confirmed
Carver · Southeastern Massachusetts · 31 min walk (1.6 mi, consider a ride) from Lourdes
Plymouth · Southeastern Massachusetts · 3 venues near Plymouth Center
Plymouth · Southeastern Massachusetts · 2 min walk from Plymouth Plantation
Berkshire Regional Transit Authority2
BRTA
- Ashfield Fall FestivalOct 10–11
Ashfield · Western Massachusetts · 0.9 mi from Ashfield Center (E) (town-centre estimate)
Stockbridge · Western Massachusetts · 23 min walk from Glendale Post Office
Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority1
CCRTA
- Wellfleet OysterFestOct 17–18
Wellfleet · Cape Cod & the Islands · 0.1 mi from Wellfleet Center (Bank Street) (town-centre estimate)
Drive-only events
3 events have no station or bus stop within 2 miles. That is genuinely the case for a lot of rural agricultural fairs and the islands. We’d rather say so than invent a connection. Plan to drive, carpool, or check for a local shuttle.
- Sturbridge Farmers Market · Sturbridge
- Topsfield Fair · Topsfield
- Holiday Craft Fair - North Attleboro High School · North Attleboro
Where these numbers come from
Stations come from the MBTA’s own V3 API; regional bus stops come from each authority’s published GTFS feed (currently PVTA, WRTA, GATRA and SRTA). Distances are straight-line from the best location we hold for each event, which is why we distinguish a confirmed venue from a town-centre estimate. Live timetables, service alerts and reported road work are fetched per-event on the event’s own page and always carry the time they were fetched.