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Whatcom Chief en route to Gooseberry Point. The Whatcom Chief is a ferry in Washington state, United States. [1] [2] The ferry carries both pedestrians and vehicles to Lummi Island from Gooseberry Point west of Bellingham, Washington. The Gooseberry Point terminal is situated on land belonging to the Lummi Nation. [3]
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 Lummi Island ferry, the Whatcom Chief, arrives to the Lummi Nation mainland on April 23, 2024, to unload vehicles and take on new passengers. Rachel Showalter/The Bellingham Herald.
The Kingston-Edmonds ferry will remain its current alternative schedule, with one-boat service for the popular route. Vessels depart roughly every 90 minutes through the day on the holiday and Friday.
The Whatcom Chief is a ferry that transports vehicles and passengers from Lummi Island to Gooseberry Point. It is run by the county government and can carry 100 passengers and 20 vehicles. [13] In the 1950s, Whatcom County proposed the construction of a bridge to replace the ferry service.
Bellingham Cruise Terminal Bellingham Cruise Terminal MV Malaspina docked at the Bellingham Cruise Terminal Interior of the terminal, set up for an event. The Bellingham Cruise Terminal is a ferry terminal and transportation hub located near the Fairhaven neighborhood in Bellingham, Washington, United States.
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.
MV Plover is an 11-ton, 17-passenger ferry in Whatcom County, Washington, built in 1944, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. She is owned by the City of Blaine, Washington and operated by the nonprofit Drayton Harbor Maritime. [3]