Quincy Bay

Overlooking the bay, June 2009

The Quincy Bay is the largest of the three bays in the southern part of Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay in the state of Massachusetts in the United States. It forms the largest part of the shoreline of the eponymous city of Quincy.

The bay extends from the district Squantum and Dorchester Bay in the northwest to the Hingham Bay in the southeast. In the southwest there is the beach Wollaston Beach. Runs along part of the coastline runs for 2.1 mi ( 3.4 km ) of Quincy Shore Drive, one of the Parkways of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation and part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston. In the Bay Islands are the Hangman Iceland, Long Iceland and Iceland Moon, part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area are.