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Ferry Terminal Road — Auke Bay Ferry Terminal: Alaska Marine Highway: 39.01: 62.78: Dead end: Beyond Echo Cove access; northern terminus of Glacier Highway: Gap in route : Haines: Haines: 0.00: 0.00: Front Street to Haines Ferry Terminal: To Alaska Marine Highway; southern terminus of Haines Highway: Canada–United States border: 39.7: 63.9
As a mainline ferry, which means she serves the largest of the inside passage communities (such as Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau, Haines, Skagway, and Sitka), her route spans the entirety of the inside passage, often beginning runs in Bellingham, Washington and running to the northernmost Alaskan Panhandle community of Skagway ...
This route provides round-trip service between Juneau, Haines and Skagway. The day boat routes connect the smaller communities of Southeast Alaska with each other and with the Southeast Alaska mainline communities (Ketchikan, Petersburg, Wrangell, Sitka, Juneau, Haines and Skagway) that serve as regional centers for commerce, government health ...
So far, Alaska has been promised more than $400 million for ferry system operations and construction, with more on the way, through ferry funding programs that U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski pushed to ...
Juneau has been served by the Alaska Marine Highway ferry system since 1959. In 1987, citing "more than 15 years" of project work, Alaska senator Jim Duncan won federal funding to study nine options that would provide road or road/ferry access to Juneau.
In late 2006, the Alaska Marine Highway System began a study for a new Lynn Canal ferry. [32] This ultimately resulted in the construction of two Alaska-class ferries, MV Tazlina and MV Hubbard. [33] In 2019 the Alaska Marine Highway System replaced Fairweather with MV Tazlina on the Juneau-Skagway-Haines route.
Matanuska's first route was from Prince Rupert, British Columbia, one end of the North American road network, to Skagway, with stops in Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Sitka, Juneau, and Haines. Passengers who travelled the entire 30-hour trip paid $30 plus another $7.50 if they wanted a berth.
The Lynn Canal route of the ferry system (Juneau-Haines-Skagway) is the only profitable route in the entire system [citation needed] and often receives a large amount of ferry traffic, especially in the summer. The Haines Airport receives a large amount of traffic, with one air carrier (Alaska Seaplanes) providing services to Skagway and Juneau ...