Work out the Coupeville ferry fare for your party and your vehicle, and see which ticket is cheapest if you cross often — from Washington State Ferries' own live price list.
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The Coupeville boat is one of the two ways off the peninsula, and working out what it costs is harder than it should be: the vehicle fare already includes the driver, a fare is collected in both directions on this crossing, and there are three different tickets you could buy. Put your party in below and this works it out from Washington State Ferries' own price list, read fresh today.
What one crossing costs
Young people ride free.
A small surcharge, and only for riders 19 and over.
$5.00
One way
Port Townsend to Coupeville
$10.00
There and back
A fare is collected in both directions on this crossing
What you are paying for
How many
Each
One way
Adult (age 19 - 64)
1
$5.00
$5.00
If you cross often, which ticket is cheapest?
Passes are bought one per person and one per vehicle, so this part is about a single regular traveller rather than a whole party.
Paying each time is the cheapest for you
At 8 round trips a month, no pass beats buying a ticket each time for this fare. That happens for two reasons: a fare that is already reduced can be cheaper than the pass price per crossing, and cards are sold whole, so a few unused rides can wipe out the discount on the ones you do use.
Ticket
Cost over three months
Per round trip
Per crossing if you use it all
Crossings bought
Pay each time
$240.00
$10.00
$5.00
48
Multi-Ride Commuter Card 20 Ride (90 days)
$252.00
$10.50
$4.20
60 for 48 used
WSF Monthly Pass 62 Ride (one calendar month)
$403.20
$16.80
$2.17
186 for 48 used
Compared over three months, because that is how long a multi-ride card lasts. Cards are sold whole, so the figures buy as many as your crossings need and count any rides that would expire unused. That is also why there is no simple “worth it from N trips a month” rule here: with whole cards, one more trip a month can tip a pass from cheaper to dearer and back again. Change the number above and the answer follows your own travel.
Where the fare is collected
Washington State Ferries puts it this way: “Passenger and vehicle/driver fares are collected at Port Townsend, while passenger and vehicle/driver fares are collected at Coupeville .” On this crossing a passenger fare is collected at both Port Townsend and Coupeville, so a return journey costs twice the one-way price. That is not true of every route in the system.
Reservations are separate
Port Townsend – Coupeville is one of only two reservable routes in the system, and a reservation is not a ticket — you still buy the fare at the terminal or online. Reserving costs nothing, but there is a no-show fee if you don't turn up, and since 1 March 2026 a no-show fee paid by card carries an extra 3%. Reservations are one way, so book the return separately. Walk-on passengers and bicycles don't need one. WSF asks drivers to arrive 30 to 45 minutes before a reserved sailing on this route; stand-by space is very limited. Sailings are bookable through 26 December 2026; the winter season opens in late October.
Every vehicle fare up to 22 feet is priced as 'vehicle and driver', so the person at the wheel does not buy a passenger ticket as well. Only the other people in the car do. Vehicles 22 feet and over are the exception: those are priced by length alone, and everyone aboard pays a passenger fare including the driver.
Measure the vehicle, not the model
WSF prices by the actual length, height and width of what turns up at the booth, including anything towed, a bike rack or a roof box. The bands are motorcycles (under 8 feet), small vehicles (under 14 feet), standard vehicles (under 22 feet), and then a length-based ladder from 22 feet up that also splits at 7 feet 2 inches tall. Check the owner's manual for your length. A ticket bought for the wrong length cannot be redeemed, and the length-based tickets are not sold online.
Reduced fares are bought in person, with proof
The senior and disability fare is available at the ticket booth on proof of eligibility, not by simply picking it online. Children and young people under 19 travel free. Where a walk-on ticket is needed to pass the turnstile, the young person has to be at the booth in person to be given their free ticket, and it lasts six hours.
Vehicle fares are higher in summer
Washington State Ferries adds a peak-season surcharge to vehicle-and-driver fares from 1 May through 30 September. Passenger fares are not affected, and neither are multi-ride cards or monthly passes — those are excluded from the surcharge. So the same car costs more to bring across in July than in November, while a commuter card costs the same all year. That is why the card saves the most during the summer months, and why the calculator above is worth re-running when your travel date crosses the end of September.
A pass can run out as well as pay off
A multi-ride commuter card is good for 90 days from purchase, and the monthly pass covers a single calendar month. Rides left over when either expires are not refunded at the discount rate, which is why the comparison above buys whole cards and counts what would go unused. If your crossings are seasonal, that matters more than the headline discount.
Today’s full price list, Port Townsend to Coupeville
Every fare Washington State Ferries publishes for this crossing, one way.
These are Washington State Ferries’ own published fares, read from its Fares API for October 12, 2026 and unchanged through December 26, 2026. WSF sets and changes them, and the price you are charged is the one at the ticket window, not the one here. Fares differ by route, so these apply to Port Townsend – Coupeville and nowhere else.
Fare data provided by the Washington State Department of Transportation through the WSDOT Traveler Information API. Not for navigational use.