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The Anacortes–San Juan Islands ferry is a system of ferry routes operated by Washington State Ferries in the United States. The routes serve Anacortes, Lopez Island, Shaw Island, Orcas Island, San Juan Island, and Sidney on Vancouver Island in Canada. [2] [3] Sidney service was suspended in March 2020 and is not planned to resume until 2030.
The ferry will resume is regular weekday schedule on Friday. The Bremerton, Seattle ferry schedule remains on a one-boat schedule, and the holiday sailings will not change from the current weekday ...
The small Jetty Island Ferry runs the short distance between the Everett Marina and the man made, unpopulated Jetty Island in the summer months for tourists. The Lady of the Lake ferry runs year-round from Chelan to Stehekin on Lake Chelan. [13] Drayton Harbor Maritime operates MV Plover between Blaine and Semiahmoo Resort during summer months.
Friday Harbor is located on the east side of San Juan Island facing the San Juan Channel. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.16 square miles (5.59 km 2), of which, 2.09 square miles (5.41 km 2) is land and 0.07 square miles (0.18 km 2) is water.
The ferry system carried a total of 18.66 million riders in 2023—9.69 million passengers and 8.97 million vehicles. [3] WSF is the largest ferry system in the United States and the second-largest vehicular ferry system in the world behind BC Ferries. [4] The state ferries carried an average of 59,900 per weekday in the third quarter of 2024.
The MV Samish rounds Lopez Island, heading for Anacortes from Friday Harbor. Taken from the MV Hyak. MV Samish is the second vessel of the Olympic-class auto ferries built by Vigor Industrial for the Washington State Ferries system. [2] The vessel started service with her maiden voyage to Friday Harbor as the #3 Boat in the San Juans on June 14 ...
1890-1902: W.C. Pyle establishes the first private ferry service between Anacortes and Guemes Island: the Lola, Capt. M.B. Miller. A launch, the Glide, also provides service. The U.S. Mail Steamer Buckeye, Capt. A. Newhall, includes Guemes Island on its Friday Harbor-Anacortes-Whatcom route. [2] 1902-1912: The Sunny Jim, Capt. Harry Rickaby, is ...
The MV Yakima is a Super-class ferry operated by Washington State Ferries.The Yakima was built in 1967 for the Seattle–Bremerton run and remained there until the early 1980s when she was moved to the Edmonds–Kingston run where she was a better match for ridership levels.