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The Keller Ferry carries State Route 21 across Lake Roosevelt on the upper Columbia River between the Colville Indian Reservation and Clark. It is operated by WSDOT and was the first ferry operated by the state of Washington. [5] The Guemes Island ferry from Anacortes 5 minutes north to Guemes Island is operated by Skagit County, Washington. [6]
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 Bainbridge, Seattle ferry will operate on a Saturday schedule on Thursday, featuring different departure and arrival times than a regular weekday. The ferry will resume is regular weekday ...
The current ferry, M/V Guemes, (91 tons) is a 21-vehicle, 100-passenger, diesel-powered ferry designed by Nickum & Spaulding of Seattle and built by Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding in Somerset, Massachusetts. She was launched on Dec. 21, 1978 and put into service on the Anacortes-Guemes route in 1979.
The ferry's crossing time is approximately ten minutes during weekday commute hours and approximately 15 minutes at all other times. [16] As of January 2016, the primary ferry for the route is the MV Doc Maynard. The ferry operates year round, and carried an average of 1,742 passengers during the commute hours in December 2014. [29]
The federal funding comes from the Federal Transit Administration’s passenger ferry grant program. New fast ferry could come to Kingston-Seattle route by 2027 at the earliest Skip to main content
At approximately 4:30 p.m. on April 15, 2023, the ferry ran aground on a Bainbridge Island beach after a generator failure while transiting Rich Passage during a Bremerton–Seattle run. No injuries or hull damage were reported among the 596 passengers and 15 crew members. [ 7 ]
Passengers who booked a Kingston Ride Fast Ferry Commuter trip can call 844-475-7433 to check on the status of their trip and pick-up location if they haven't been contacted already.