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The Point Defiance–Tahlequah ferry is a ferry route across Puget Sound between the Point Defiance ferry terminal in Tacoma and Tahlequah, Washington, on the southern tip of Vashon Island. Since 1951 the only ferries employed on the route have belonged to the Washington state ferry system , currently the largest ferry system in the United States.
Later that year, on September 28, 2009, the Vashon Island/Downtown Seattle route was transferred from Washington State Ferries and became the second King County Water Taxi Route. [15] King County Ferry District leased the catamaran MV Melissa Ann from Four Seasons Marine Services to operate the Vashon Island route. In addition to being more ...
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] Wahkiakum County operates the Wahkiakum County Ferry between Puget Island, Washington and Westport, Oregon on the lower Columbia River.
I took a $6.50 ferry to Vashon Island, a scenic spot near Seattle.. The ferry ride was only 20 minutes long and had beautiful views of the Puget Sound. I had a great time on the island and even ...
State Route 339 (SR 339) is a 8.5-nautical-mile-long (9.8 mi; 15.7 km) [1] state highway in the U.S. state of Washington.It is designated on a former state-run ferry route that connected Vashon Island's Vashon Heights ferry terminal to downtown Seattle's Pier 50, via a passenger-only ferry, the MV Skagit.
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.
Operating funds for the ferry system, reliant on gas taxes raised by the state, were left out of the 1989 budget because of a dispute in the state government. As a result, the MV Tyee and two additional passenger-only ferries intended to serve Vashon Island were pulled from service in June 1989. [7]
The Cathlamet was built in 1981, as an Issaquah-class ferry, [3] for service on the Mukilteo-Clinton route. In 1991, in order to keep up with growing demand, the Cathlamet, along with many of her sister ships were upgraded from Issaquah class to Issaquah 130-class ferries, by adding additional vehicle areas above the vehicle areas along the outside edge of the ferry.