COVID-19 TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

Massachusetts travel guidelines, which apply to visitors and returning state residents, are being periodically updated, and can be found here. Limited exemptions apply for certain incoming visitors.

In general:

With the exception of those who have been fully vaccinated against COVID019, all returning visitors, returning residents, students, and travelers from high-risk regions must quarantine for 10 days on arrival, or produce a negative COVID-19 test result administered within 72-hours of arrival in Massachusetts. A traveler may also be tested upon arrival in Massachusetts. Visitors from lower-risk regions are not subject to these rules, nor or those who have been vaccinated.

Prior to incoming travel, people should visit https://www.mass.gov/forms/massachusetts-travel-form to fill out the MA Travel Form, or text “MATraveler” to 888-777. If your COVID-19 test result has not been received prior to arrival, visitors, and residents MUST quarantine until they receive a negative test result.

Failure to adhere to this Travel Order may result in a fine up to $500 per day.

If you know you will be traveling into, or returning to, Great Barrington and would like to be tested on your arrival, the Great Barrington COVID-19 testing site is located at Fairview Hospital. To reserve an appointment at the testing tent please call (855) 262 5465. Appointments are required and no walk-ins are permitted.

Traveler exemptions include people passing through the state, people commuting across state lines for work, people traveling to Massachusetts for medical treatment, people complying with military orders, or people traveling to work in federally designated critical infrastructure sectors (essential services).

“Great Barrington has been fortunate to not have any new positive COVID-19 cases in many weeks,” said Rebecca Jurczyk, health agent for the Great Barrington Health Department. "The Health Department asks all travelers to diligently adhere to Governor Baker’s new travel order so Great Barrington can continue to be a safe place to be.”  

For more information, view Gov. Baker’s Aug. 1 travel order press release here.