Sausalito Ferry Terminal

{{Short description|Ferry terminal in Sausalito, California, US}}

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| caption = Golden Gate Ferry docked at Sausalito, 2006

| address = Humboldt Avenue at Anchor Street
Sausalito, California

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| operator = Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District (as Golden Gate Ferry)

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| connections = Golden Gate Transit: 2, 30, 92
Marin Transit: 17, 61, 71X, 115

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| opened = {{Start date|1868}}
{{Start date|1970|08|15}} (Golden Gate Ferry)

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| rebuilt = 1996

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|line3=Mill Valley|left3=Pine

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Sausalito Ferry Terminal is a ferry terminal in Sausalito, California, connecting Marin County and San Francisco. The station is served by Golden Gate Ferry and Blue & Gold Fleet ferries as well as Golden Gate Transit and Marin Transit bus routes.

History

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The Sausalito Land and Ferry Company began running ferries between here and San Francisco around 1868.{{cite web |title=History of Golden Gate Ferry Service |url=http://goldengateferry.org/researchlibrary/history.php |publisher=Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District |access-date=April 30, 2019}} The terminal served as the southern terminus and ferry connection to San Francisco for the North Pacific Coast Railroad,{{cite book| title=The Northwestern Pacific Railroad: Redwood Empire Route |orig-year=1964|year=1982 |author=Stindt, Fred. Kelseyville and Modesto |publisher=Dunscomb Press |id=Library of Congress Catalog No.64-24033|pages=88–89}} which purchased the service in 1875. Pedestrian ferries were discontinued on February 28, 1941,{{cite news |title=1,700 Passengers in Last Excursion on Gate Ferry |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-press-democrat/131705219/ |access-date=September 13, 2023 |newspaper=Press Democrat |via=Newspapers.com |date=March 2, 1941 |page=1}} {{free access}} with car ferry service ended by March, a few years after opening of the Golden Gate Bridge.{{cite web |title=History of Sausalito |url=http://www.sausalito.com/channel/History-of-Sausalito/4364 |website=Sausalito.com |publisher=Sausalito.com & California Media Partners, LLC |access-date=April 30, 2019}}

On August 15, 1970, Golden Gate Ferries began service to San Francisco along with the inauguration of bus services to the ferry terminal that day. A new dock was built in 1996.{{cite news|last1=Prado|first1=Mark|title=Sausalito ferry landing revisions approved as city balks|url=http://www.marinij.com/article/NO/20170530/NEWS/170539984|access-date=June 1, 2017|agency=Marin Independent Journal|date=May 30, 2017}}

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