Education & Recreation...

As opportunities to explore natural coastal habitats diminish, we recognize that Quissett Harbor and the Knob offer an increasingly important resource for education and recreation. 

Education
It's not enough to simply provide a landscape for visitors to explore—true conservationists are motivated by an understanding of what they are experiencing. We will be offering a range of educational programs and literature at the Knob to help visitors explore the landscape and learn about history, land use, and ecology.

Intrepretation
Bulletin boards, wayside displays, trail maps, self-guided landscape tour brochures, and interpretive guides help visitors to interpret the landscape while they experience it.

Recreation
We oversee the Harbor, the Knob and surrounding habitats for people with a wide range of interests. Historically, the Quissett Harbor area has provided people with tranquil opportunities to study nature, to watch birds, to go for a relaxing sail or a refreshing swim, to fish for blues or stripers, take photographs, go dog walking, or watch another extraordinary sunset over Buzzards Bay and beyond. Today, many visitors are increasingly seeking special places like Quissett Harbor to pursue a wider range of active and passive recreational opportunities.