Langdale ferry terminal

Langdale is a ferry terminal owned and operated by BC Ferries, which provides ferry services from the Sunshine Coast to the Lower Mainland, Gambier Island, and Keats Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Langdale
Ferry terminal
General information
Location	1376 Port Mellon Hwy Langdale, British Columbia Canada
Coordinates	49°26′0.5″N 123°28′19″W
Owned by	BC Ferries
Operated by	BC Ferries
Line(s)	Route 3–Horseshoe Bay Route 13–Gambier Island, Keats Island
Bus routes	2
Connections	Sunshine Regional  1  Sechelt  90  Sechelt (Express) [1]
Construction
Parking	60 short-term spaces 287 long-term spaces
Other information
Station code	LANG[2]
Website	www.bcferries.com/travel-boarding/terminal-directions-parking-food/sunshine-coast-langdale/LNG
Passengers
2023	1 392 986[Note 1]  6.36%

Route 3 is a car/passenger ferry route to Horseshoe Bay in West Vancouver.^[3] Route 13 to Gambier Island and Keats Island only offers passenger service.^[4]

British Columbia Highway 101 is connected to this terminal through an off-ramp that leads to North Gibsons.

Incidents and accidents

On 26 March 2019, the Queen of Surrey smashed into a dock with 285 passengers on board at around 08:10. As a result, passengers were stuck on board the vessel for eleven hours. At 17:15, BC Ferries received permission from Transport Canada to use a Seaspan tugboat to free the vessel from the dock, and at 18:15, passengers were allowed to disembark. BC Ferries reported that no spills and no injuries ensued from this incident.^[5]

Notes

1. Figures obtained for 2022 & 2023 from adding the passengers counted at Langdale from the routes 1 and 13 in each month of the calendar year.^{[Note 2]} The figures under "Total Prev Year" are not used because those denote fiscal years instead of calendar years. The total passenger count at Langdale for 2022 was 1 309 642.

References

1. "BC Transit - Schedules and Maps". BC Transit. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
2. "Plans, Reports, Policies and Other Resources". Connecting the Coast | BC Ferries. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
3. "BC Ferries Schedules: Langdale to Horseshoe Bay (West Vancouver)". BC Ferries. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
4. "BC Ferries Schedules: Langdale to Gambier Island & Keats Island". BC Ferries. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
5. Brown, Scott; Carrigg, David (26 March 2019). "B.C. Ferries passengers stuck for 11 hours on ferry at Langdale Terminal". Vancouver Sun. Postmedia Network. Retrieved 17 March 2023.