canby ferry

We live in Canby and do much business in Wilsonville (other side of river from Canby) . It's worth he extra few minutes to go out of the way and take the ferry. Either warm sunny days or cold rainy winter days, it's always a fun ride across the river.

The Canby ferry was great fun. It is cheap at $ 4.00 a trip. I went late in the day the river was spectacular. I will take it again as a did not get any photos. love it.

I love the Canby Ferry and For $3.00 it costs to ride it - it's worth it!The river is always spectacular in the summer months and you can drive off the ferry into farmland and farm stands! The Swan Island Daliah festival happens in August and taking the ferry and going to the festival is always fun. You can get out of your car on the ferry and take pictures as you cross. It's cheap fun!!

A fun, cheap, short ride on a ferry that will expose your crew to a little Americana. Be sure to study up on ferry's in Oregon so you can give a little narrative history.

It's a cheap boat ride on the Willamette and while it's just a ferry ride, it's a long'ish one and fun.

After years of carrying cyclists and pedestrians across the ferry for free, they now charge a Bicycle and pedestrian the same as a motorcycle. thing is a motorcycle takes up space in a lane, and weighs 500 lbs, where a bicycle stands on the edge and weighs less than a light backpack. somehow the county thinks they will increase income with this increase. I know of no cyclists/Pedestrians that will pay $4 round trip to use the ferry. cheaper to ferry your bike around yourself on your bike rack.The Official boycott has begun, a local

Canby Ferry riders will need to find some extra money starting July 1 to cross the Willamette River.Clackamas County commissioners voted to increase rates in order to reduce the county subsidy for the service. New rates are effective July 1, 2012.Pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists will pay $2, and most drivers will pay $4. Previously, pedestrians and bicycles crossed for free, motorcyclists paid $1, most drivers paid $2.County commissioners in January considered ending the ferry service between Canby and Wilsonville after learning the county subsidizes it to the tune of more than $400,000 a year -- money that could be spent elsewhere in an era of tight budgets.The new rates are expected to generate an estimated $241,600 a year. That could reduce the county's annual subsidy to about $175,000 a year.

Take a step back in time when you drive onto the Canby Ferry. It's a taste of history to float your car across the old ferry. Enjoy the scenery and let time pass you by as you experience crossing the river as our forefathers did. A great experience for kids too. Don't forget to pass on history as we fight to preserve these little bits of our past.

It is a beautiful drive through Canby to get to the ferry that will take only a couple of cars accross the river to the Wilsonville area. Fun little trip to the past.

This historic Ferry is an electric powered ferry which runs between 6:45 a.m. and 9:15 p.m. daily and gives the rider a nicer perspective of the Willamette River than the closest bridges: Oregon City and I-5 at Wilsonville.Ferry service is 0.3 miles across the river and takes on average 2 minutes. The Ferry service operates 7 days per week and is $2/car. Pedestrians and bicyclists travel for free. Sadly, the current fee doesn’t cover the County’s $6/car cost of operating the Ferry. It is likely the County will either need to increase fares or shut down the ferry. That would be tragic…to lose this bit of history. I believe there are only three automobile ferries operating in Oregon: Wheatland, Buena Vista and Canby. All three cross the Willamette River.

Ferries are a throw back from times past.\ when Oregon was much younger. A very pleasant county road drive from the Stafford exit of 205 and once off the Ferry, a two or three minute journey you are only a hop skip and a jump from down town Canby, again traveling along very pleasant country roads. We do it regularly staying off motorways as often as we can.

The Canby Ferry, in Oregon, crosses the Willamette River between Canby and Wilsonville. There's no reason to make the ferry the primary focus of a journey - it's not in a particularly unique, scenic area, and doesn't lead to, nor from, such an area. But if you happen to be passing through the Canby/Wilsonville/Oregon City area, and are just looking for a nice route for your drive, it's worth a detour. The ferry leaves (or arrives, depending on your point of view), near the Molalla River State Park, part of the Oregon Parks system (and which sits at the confluence of the Willamette, Molalla and Pudding rivers - there's a bathroom and areas for picnics and dog walking, but no camping is allowed). The ferry operates whenever there is a vehicle to transport, between around 6:45 a.m. to 9:15 p.m., seven days a week, except for New Years Day, Martin Luther King Day (in January), Presidents Day (in February), Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas, or when the level of the river reaches 70 feet or higher. The ferry has space for six cars, and is free for bicyclists and pedestrians.

The Canby Ferry travels across the Willamette River to connect the town of Canby to the town of Wilsonville. A cyclist or pedestrian is still free of charge and a regular size car is about $2.00 to cross the river. The picturesque view of the river activity is fun to see as the ferry crosses it and every once in a while for no real reason we just have to take the ride. The information line for the ferry which is in Clackamas County is 503-650-3030 . Someone wrote that the ferry is in Aurora which is the next little town south of Canby on Highway 99 but the Canby Ferry is in Canby very near to Molalla River State Park. The Canby Ferry website is here: http://www.clackamas.us/transportation/transit/ferry.htm