New Bedford Harbor is a harbor at the mouth of the Acushnet River on the south coast of Massachusetts, opening into Buzzards Bay through a single dredged channel. The tide is semidiurnal, with a mean range of 3.60 ft (1.10 m) at the New Bedford Harbor station.
- Type
- Harbor
- Location
- Massachusetts, United States
- Setting
- At the mouth of the Acushnet River on the south coast of Massachusetts, opening into Buzzards Bay through a single dredged channel
- Tidal range
- The tide is semidiurnal, with a mean range of 3.60 ft (1.10 m) at the New Bedford Harbor station.
- Notable
- The New Bedford Hurricane Barrier across the harbor mouth, completed in 1966 by the US Army Corps of Engineers, is the largest stone-revetment hurricane barrier on the US Atlantic coast (USACE).
