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Port Orchard’s Southworth Ferry to Seattle

Loading your body and/or car onto a ferry to get from one side of the South Sound is a daily experience for many – and a rare and exciting experience for some.  The Southworth Ferry Landing on the eastern shores of Port Orchard makes almost hourly trips, daily.  There’s not just one ferry either.  More like 3 of them.  They travel a triangle between Southworth, Vashon Island, and West Seattle’s Fauntleroy landings.

If you are traveling by car, you can stay in your car, or go above deck and enjoy a snack bar, rest room facilities, but most importantly – the view.  From the upper decks you can view the Olympic Mountain range, the Cascades Mountain Range, and Mount Rainier that seem to surround you.  Passing freight ships and barges being pushed or pulled by tug boats are not an uncommon sighting.  Neither are seals, whales, and plenty more sea life.  The seaguls keep pace with you as well. 

Wet, windy, stormy days are fun too.  You won’t see mountains.  You will feel the swells, and wonder how on earth the captain pilots the ferry and docks it against mother natures forces. 

Taking a Washington State Ferry on the South Sound may take as long as driving around to get to the other side.  It eliminates that driving stress, and there are no traffic jams.  You’re relaxed and refreshed when you get to the other side. 

There will be times you won’t want to depart the ferry at all. 

Courtesy of South Sound Properties Team - South Sound, Washington