Free Martha’s Vineyard Scavenger Hunt: For Tourists and Locals

Martha’s Vineyard has so many sights to see, and this free scavenger hunt will lead you to all the best places, local haunts, and have you keeping an eye out for what makes Martha’s Vineyard unique! Below, is our free scavenger hunt, where you can click or tap each item to mark it as complete. And for the planners out there, you can drag and drop rows to change the order in case you want to map out everything in advance.

For a print-and-play instead, click the picture below and you can download and print that.

Martha's Vineyard Scavenger Hunt

Read further for more information on how to play as well as additional scavenger hunt options we offer.

Scavenger Hunt Checklist for Martha’s Vineyard

ItemPoints
Aquinnah Cliffs5
Edgartown Lighthouse4
Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association3
Menemsha Harbor5
Flying Horses Carousel2
Oak Bluffs Gingerbread Houses3
The Black Dog Tavern5
Chappaquiddick Island4
Katama Beach (South Beach)3
Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group2
Vineyard Haven Harbor4
Gay Head Lighthouse2
Morning Glory Farm1
The Martha’s Vineyard Museum1
Cape Poge Wildlife Refuge4
Larsen’s Fish Market3
Polly Hill Arboretum5
The Lookout Tavern3
Vineyard Golf Club4
Mytoi Japanese Garden5
Island Alpaca Company3
Inkwell Beach4
State Beach (Joseph Sylvia State Beach)2
The Bite3
Tisbury Great Pond4
Beetlebung Farm2
Polly Hill Arboretum Sunset2
Moshup Beach5
Menemsha Fish Market3
Cape Cod Vineyard Sunset4

How to Play

For this Martha’s Vineyard scavenger hunt, we’ve come up with a list of things to see in the city. Some of them are popular tourist attractions while others are more local secrets. For each item, you (or your team) will need to take a picture that shows both you and the listed item. For each photo you take, you’ll get the corresponding amount of points listed to the side of that item. 

At the end of the allotted time for the scavenger hunt, you can see what level of rank you’ve earned and whichever team has the most points wins! You’ll be allowed to go to City Hall and ask for a key to the city. (We haven’t actually made any arrangements, but it doesn’t hurt to ask, right?)

Additional considerations for how you play:

  1. We recommend three hours for the scavenger hunt just to have a limit on the time you’re focused on this activity, but that’s up to you.
  2. If you’re traveling as part of a group and don’t want to split up, we’d recommend treating this as a game of I-Spy and awarding points to whoever in the group spots the item first or takes the first photo.
  3. It’s up to you how tough you want to make it with respect to awarding points just for seeing something, or if you have to go inside, or taking it further and requiring even more depending on the location.

Score and Rankings

0-10: Did you even leave your hotel?
11-20: Business trip traveler
21-30: Frequent business trip traveler
31-40: Tourist
41-50: Lives in the next city over
51-60: Over-caffeinated tourist
61-70: Recent transplant
71-80: Local
81-90: Actually grew up here and has always lived here
91-100: Mayor

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