Jamestown Ferry

37°12′03″N 76°47′04″W / 37.2009°N 76.7844°W / 37.2009; -76.7844

Jamestown Ferry

The Pocahontas carrying vehicles across the James River in 2015
Waterway	James River
Route	Virginia State Route 31
Carries	Automobiles and buses
Operator	Virginia Department of Transportation
Began operation	1925; state run since 1945
No. of vessels	4 (Pocahontas, Williamsburg, Surry, Powhatan)
Route map

The Jamestown Ferry (also known as the Jamestown-Scotland Ferry) is a free automobile and bus ferry service across a navigable portion of the James River in Virginia. It carries State Route 31, connecting Jamestown in James City County with Scotland Wharf in Surry County.

The service provides the only vehicle crossing of the river between the James River Bridge downstream at Newport News and the Benjamin Harrison Memorial Bridge upriver near Hopewell. It is toll-free and operated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). The vessels carry over 900,000 passengers annually.^[1] Operations are based at the Scotland Wharf in Surry County.