Routes
Most Washington State Ferry routes are legally part of the state highway system, frequently with no road portion on one end or the other.
- Seattle-Bremerton (SR 304)
- Seattle-Bainbridge Island (SR 305)
- Southworth to Vashon Island to Fauntleroy (West Seattle) (SR 160)
- Point Defiance-Tahlequah (south end of Vashon Island) (SR 163)
- Clinton to Mukilteo (SR 525)
- Edmonds-Kingston (SR 104)
- Keystone to Port Townsend (State Route 20)
- Anacortes to (any or all of the following ) (SR 20 Spur)
- Lopez Island
- Shaw Island
- Orcas Island
- Friday Harbor (on San Juan Island)
- Sidney, British Columbia (The service's only Canadian port-of-call) (Seasonal, operates April through December)
From October 1986 to September 9, 1989 and from April 23, 1990 to Sept. 21, 2003 a passenger-only service ran on the Seattle-Bremerton route. It was shut down because of limited profitability and because of continued lawsuits of residents living on the waterway used by the ferry to prevent the high-speed ferries built for the run from running at their full speed. The slower speed made the crossing time similar or equal to the auto ferry operating on the same route, making the passenger-only service redundant.
The current passenger-only ferry route between Seattle and Vashon Island is designated State Route 339, with no road portion at either end. This route is no longer operated by Washington State Ferries, as responsibility was passed to the King County Marine Division in fall of 2009.
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