A Washington State Ferry departs from Bainbridge Island.
This spring, Washington State Ferries turned 73 years old. The single largest ferry system in the US, it carries more than 18 million riders per year but faces choppy seas ahead as its fleet continues to age and it struggles to maintain a full workforce in the twenty-first century. The history of how Puget Sound’s ferry network, an extension of the state highway system, came to be is full of twists and turns.
The Beaver was the first steamship to operate in the region.
Steam-Powered
1830s
After millennia of trips across Puget
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