34th Western Photosynthesis Conference

Friday Harbor Laboratories
January 2 - 5, 2025











Travel to Friday Harbour Labs (FHL) 

FHL is on San Juan Island, approximately 100 miles northwest of Seattle, Washington and most attendees arrive by car and ferry.  Additional travel information from FHL can be found here: https://fhl.uw.edu/about/how-to-get-here/  

From Seattle to Friday Harbor by car, boarding a ferry in Anacortes

The Washington State Ferry schedule can be found on their website. The departing Washington State Ferry terminal is in Anacortes (a 95-mile drive north of Seattle) and the arriving terminal is Friday Harbor. Schedules vary by date and by day of the week. Read the schedule carefully as not all ferries leaving Anacortes come to Friday Harbor! 

You may bring your car or walk on the ferry. If you are bringing a car, an online reservation for the ferry is highly recommended. Although a reservation is not required, reserving a spot for your vehicle guarantees a space on the ferry. Walk-on ferry passengers do not need a reservation. A debit card or credit card is required to make a reservation. (If you do not travel on your reserved sailing and do not change/cancel your reservation within the allotted time, a no-show fee will be charged to your credit card on file. Please read carefully the change/cancellation policies on the WSF website before purchase.)   

Note: the purchase of a ticket to ride the ferry is a separate transaction from reserving a spot on a ferry. Ticket price includes round-trip from/to Anacortes and Friday Harbor.  Plan to arrive at the departing ferry terminal 60-90 minutes ahead of sailing. Driving to the Anacortes ferry terminal from Seattle takes approximately two and half hours but often heavy traffic can extend that time.   

Shuttles are available to and from the ferry to Seatac or Bellingham airport:   http://www.airporter.com Shuttle and ferry times are NOT necessarily aligned, please check in advance.  

Flights to the area

Seattle SeaTac Airport is accessible from most major airports. More information found here. 

Starting in 2019 there should be available flights directly to Everett WA via Alaska and United to the Pain Field Airport. Updates on this will be provided as soon as possible. 

Alternative nonstop flights to Bellingham using Allegiant Air. They do nonstop to/ from Phoenix, Denver and Oakland (the latter not all days though) 

From Everett and Bellingham it is only an hour by car (or shuttle) to get to the Anacortes ferry terminal. 

Kenmore Airlines offers flights from Boeing Field or Lake Union near downtown Seattle, to the Friday Harbor Airport or Marina for about $300 round trip. For those with flights arriving at SeaTac airport, Kenmore Air has a ground transportation option to connect with their flights. 

Getting from the ferry at Friday Harbor to the lab:

We will have a WSU shuttle vans at the island harbor. 

Alternatively, you can also walk the ~ 1.5 miles from town to the FHL (20- 30 min). Google map here.
There is no fee for parking on the FHL campus.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE EVENT, Contact  kirchhh@wsu.edu, youngjn@uw.edu, or acousins@wsu.edu