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Washington State Ferries — Live Ferry Tracker
130 terminal & harbour cameras across 11 dock walls, and the fleet live on AIS — matched by the boats' own broadcast names. Positions, not timetables. Free, no signup.
Washington State Ferries runs the largest ferry system in the United States, and it is the rare operator whose terminals are already on camera: Washington's DOT publishes a camera at essentially every dock in the network — the holding lanes, the toll booths, the terminal approaches. This page gathers them all, dock by dock, and pairs them with the boats themselves, tracked live by the names they broadcast on AIS.
The pairing is the point. The live panel above shows the fleet as the feed sees it — each vessel under its own broadcast name, with its speed and destination as reported, nothing older than ten minutes admitted. The walls below show where those boats are going: the dock filling up before a sailing, the holding lanes draining as a boat loads, the queue on the hill above Kingston on a Friday afternoon.
The Washington State Ferries fleet, live
Every vessel of this system that is transmitting on AIS right now — its broadcast name, speed and destination as reported. Reports up to about ten minutes old are admitted; older reports are dropped, never carried forward as if live.
Washington State Ferries — on the water now
Live AIS · refreshes every 30 sListening for Washington State Ferries vessels…
Positions are the vessels’ own AIS broadcasts, matched by fleet name inside the service area. Reports can be up to about 10 minutes old — the feed drops anything older — so treat this as where the boats were moments ago, and never as a sailing schedule: for departure times, use the operator’s own status.
Best time to watch
Ferry watching is a rhythm, not an event: the cycle of a dock emptying and refilling runs all day, and the cameras catch it best at the peaks — the morning commute into Seattle, the Friday-evening escape to the islands, the Sunday return. In the San Juans, watch the Anacortes and Friday Harbor walls together: the same boat leaves one frame and, a crossing later, enters the other. Weather is the other drama — Puget Sound fog swallows the docks whole, and the fleet keeps its rhythm inside it.
Terminals & routes
Terminals served: Seattle (Colman Dock) · Bainbridge Island · Bremerton · Edmonds · Kingston · Mukilteo · Clinton · Fauntleroy · Vashon Island · Southworth · Point Defiance (Tacoma) · Tahlequah · Anacortes · Friday Harbor · Orcas Island · Shaw Island · Lopez Island · Port Townsend · Coupeville (Keystone).
Routes, named as the terminal pairs they connect: Seattle – Bainbridge Island · Seattle – Bremerton · Edmonds – Kingston · Mukilteo – Clinton · Fauntleroy – Vashon Island – Southworth · Point Defiance (Tacoma) – Tahlequah · Anacortes – Lopez – Shaw – Orcas – Friday Harbor · Port Townsend – Coupeville (Keystone). No sailing times are listed — no dataset behind this site carries them, so the live panel and the operator’s own status are the guide.
Seattle — Colman Dock — 89 cameras
The system's front door: WSDOT's own holding-lane camera sits at Colman Dock itself, inside downtown Seattle's dense street network.
Loading live cameras…Fetching the live index for Colman Dock, Seattle.
Every card is the camera's real live feed: snapshot cards refresh about every 15 seconds, stream cards play live in the grid (a few at a time, the same budget the map tiles use) and in full when you open a camera. Feeds are provided by their operators and public sources; a camera whose stream has gone off air shows as unavailable rather than playing a recording.
Edmonds & Kingston — 6 cameras
Both ends of the Edmonds–Kingston crossing: the Edmonds dock on the mainland shore and the Kingston terminal across the water.
Loading live cameras…Fetching the live index for the Edmonds–Kingston crossing.
Every card is the camera's real live feed: snapshot cards refresh about every 15 seconds, stream cards play live in the grid (a few at a time, the same budget the map tiles use) and in full when you open a camera. Feeds are provided by their operators and public sources; a camera whose stream has gone off air shows as unavailable rather than playing a recording.
Bainbridge Island — 3 cameras
The island end of the Seattle run — the Bainbridge holding lanes and the SR 305 approach into Winslow.
Loading live cameras…Fetching the live index for Bainbridge Island.
Every card is the camera's real live feed: snapshot cards refresh about every 15 seconds, stream cards play live in the grid (a few at a time, the same budget the map tiles use) and in full when you open a camera. Feeds are provided by their operators and public sources; a camera whose stream has gone off air shows as unavailable rather than playing a recording.
Bremerton — 3 cameras
Bremerton's terminal holding lanes, at the end of the longest crossing on Puget Sound's west side.
Loading live cameras…Fetching the live index for Bremerton.
Every card is the camera's real live feed: snapshot cards refresh about every 15 seconds, stream cards play live in the grid (a few at a time, the same budget the map tiles use) and in full when you open a camera. Feeds are provided by their operators and public sources; a camera whose stream has gone off air shows as unavailable rather than playing a recording.
Mukilteo & Clinton — 7 cameras
The Whidbey Island crossing: Mukilteo’s lighthouse-side dock and the Clinton terminal at the island’s south end.
Loading live cameras…Fetching the live index for the Mukilteo–Clinton crossing.
Every card is the camera's real live feed: snapshot cards refresh about every 15 seconds, stream cards play live in the grid (a few at a time, the same budget the map tiles use) and in full when you open a camera. Feeds are provided by their operators and public sources; a camera whose stream has gone off air shows as unavailable rather than playing a recording.
Fauntleroy, Vashon & Southworth — the Triangle Route — 10 cameras
Three docks, one boat, a triangle on the chart: West Seattle’s Fauntleroy dock, Vashon Island’s north end and Southworth on the Kitsap shore.
Loading live cameras…Fetching the live index for the Triangle Route.
Every card is the camera's real live feed: snapshot cards refresh about every 15 seconds, stream cards play live in the grid (a few at a time, the same budget the map tiles use) and in full when you open a camera. Feeds are provided by their operators and public sources; a camera whose stream has gone off air shows as unavailable rather than playing a recording.
Point Defiance & Tahlequah — 1 cameras
Tacoma's Point Defiance dock and Tahlequah at Vashon Island's south tip — the shortest crossing in the system.
Loading live cameras…Fetching the live index for Point Defiance & Tahlequah.
Every card is the camera's real live feed: snapshot cards refresh about every 15 seconds, stream cards play live in the grid (a few at a time, the same budget the map tiles use) and in full when you open a camera. Feeds are provided by their operators and public sources; a camera whose stream has gone off air shows as unavailable rather than playing a recording.
Anacortes — 4 cameras
The mainland gateway to the San Juan Islands: the Anacortes terminal, its holding lanes and the road out to the dock.
Loading live cameras…Fetching the live index for Anacortes.
Every card is the camera's real live feed: snapshot cards refresh about every 15 seconds, stream cards play live in the grid (a few at a time, the same budget the map tiles use) and in full when you open a camera. Feeds are provided by their operators and public sources; a camera whose stream has gone off air shows as unavailable rather than playing a recording.
San Juan Islands — Friday Harbor, Orcas, Shaw & Lopez — 5 cameras
The island docks themselves: Friday Harbor’s holding lanes, the Orcas and Lopez ferry landings, and the islands’ own roads and harbours.
Loading live cameras…Fetching the live index for the San Juan Island terminals.
Every card is the camera's real live feed: snapshot cards refresh about every 15 seconds, stream cards play live in the grid (a few at a time, the same budget the map tiles use) and in full when you open a camera. Feeds are provided by their operators and public sources; a camera whose stream has gone off air shows as unavailable rather than playing a recording.
Port Townsend — 1 cameras
Port Townsend's terminal at the edge of the Victorian seaport — the west end of the Admiralty Inlet crossing.
Loading live cameras…Fetching the live index for Port Townsend.
Every card is the camera's real live feed: snapshot cards refresh about every 15 seconds, stream cards play live in the grid (a few at a time, the same budget the map tiles use) and in full when you open a camera. Feeds are provided by their operators and public sources; a camera whose stream has gone off air shows as unavailable rather than playing a recording.
Coupeville (Keystone) — 1 cameras
The Keystone landing beside Fort Casey: the terminal camera itself, on Whidbey Island's west shore.
Loading live cameras…Fetching the live index for Coupeville (Keystone).
Every card is the camera's real live feed: snapshot cards refresh about every 15 seconds, stream cards play live in the grid (a few at a time, the same budget the map tiles use) and in full when you open a camera. Feeds are provided by their operators and public sources; a camera whose stream has gone off air shows as unavailable rather than playing a recording.
The cameras that carry the ferry in their name
How to use the Washington State Ferries tracker
- 1Start with the live panel: it tells you which boats are actually on the water right now, under their own names.
- 2Read the dock before the boat: open the terminal wall for the dock you care about and look at the holding lanes — a filling dock is a sailing being prepared.
- 3Cross-check with the weather panel: fog, wind and tide change what a crossing looks like long before they change whether it runs.
- 4For departure times, use the operator's own sailing status — this page tracks positions and pictures, and prints no timetable it cannot source.
- 5Open any vessel on the globe to follow it across the water; the full maritime layer (VIP) carries every other ship sharing the route.
Washington State Ferries ferry tracker — FAQ
Can I see ferry sailing times here?+
How does the live panel know these are WSF boats?+
Why is a terminal sometimes missing from the live panel?+
How many cameras are in the Washington State Ferries walls, and how is the count worked out?+
Is it free to watch?+
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