Crowfoot Ferry

{{Infobox Water transit

| name = Crowfoot Ferry

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| locale = Crowfoot, Alberta

| waterway = Bow River

| transit_type = Automobile

| system_length = {{convert|150|m|ft|abbr=on}}{{cite web|title=Crowfoot Ferry|url=http://www.transportation.alberta.ca/Content/docType34/Production/crowfoot_ferry.pdf|publisher=Alberta Transportation|accessdate=July 7, 2018}}

| operator = Alberta Transportation

| website = [http://www.transportation.alberta.ca/1965.htm Ferries - Alberta Transportation]

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The Crowfoot Ferry is a cable ferry in near Crowfoot, Alberta, Canada. It links the two sections of Range Road 201 as it crosses the Bow River from Wheatland County on the north, to Vulcan County on the south, within the Siksika Nation. Originally opened in 1927,{{cite news |title=Take a ride on the Crowfoot Crossing ferry |url=https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/take-a-ride-on-the-crowfoot-crossing-ferry-1.394880 |accessdate=July 7, 2018 |work=CTV Calgary |agency=CTV News |date=May 1, 2009 |language=en-CA}} It is located {{convert|5|km|0}} south of the Highway 1 (Trans-Canada Highway) / Highway 56 intersection and is maintained by Alberta Transportation. The ferry suffered considerable damage during the 2013 Alberta floods and was out of operation for four years while it was rebuilt.{{cite web |title=Alberta Flood 2013: Damage to Crowfoot Ferry Bow River Crossing |url=http://www.transportation.alberta.ca/Flood%20Recovery%202013/CROWFOOT%20FERRY.pdf |website=Alberta Transportation |publisher=Government of Alberta |accessdate=July 7, 2018}}{{cite web |last1=Bandy |first1=BW |title=Crowfoot Ferry |url=http://everybodyhastobesomewhere.blogspot.com/2017/06/crowfoot-ferry-june-4-2017.html |website=Everybody Has To Be Somewhere |accessdate=July 7, 2018 |date=June 9, 2017}}

The ferry operates from late April to November.{{cite web|title=Ferries|url=http://www.transportation.alberta.ca/1965.htm|website=Alberta Transportation|publisher=Government of Alberta|accessdate=July 7, 2018|language=en|date=October 2, 2007|archive-date=May 17, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090517001049/http://www.transportation.alberta.ca/1965.htm|url-status=dead}}

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Category:Ferries of Alberta

Category:Vulcan County

Category:Wheatland County, Alberta

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