About the terminal
Drivers bound for the Olympic Peninsula from north of Seattle use this dock to miss out the city altogether, crossing to Kingston in half an hour instead of working south through the traffic and round the foot of Puget Sound. Barely 9 km of water lies between the two terminals. The fare is a westbound matter, taken here rather than at the Kingston ramp. Mukilteo, the other Snohomish County terminal, lies 17 km up the shore and serves Whidbey Island rather than the peninsula.