Valley View Ferry

Valley View Ferry Traffic Information
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"Turn back the clock" experience yesterday! The Valley View Ferry has been transporting people across the Kentucky River since 1785. It's where the history of the region began and where it is still alive. It's Kentucky's oldest continuous business.
Revolutionary War hero John Craig received a "perpetual and irrevocable franchise" in 1785 from the Virginia legislature to set up the ferry "on the lands of John Craig at the mouth of Tates Creek," Mike Longinow wrote in a column for the Jessamine Journal.
"The view from the river is gorgeous with green hillsides on each bank reaching up the Palisades where birds are circling and chirping in the trees for people with places to go and things to see."

Valley View Ferry
Hours of Operation

Monday-Friday 6:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.
Saturday 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Sunday 9:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m.
Open year round

For information on the operating status of the ferry call Lexington Traffic Information Network Recording 859-258-3611 or Madison County TINR 859-628-8143.
Cellular One Customers *311.

Free passage provided by funding through the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
Stop for lunch in Spears at the old fashioned "Country Store." You'll sit on milk cans and enjoy country cuisine along-side the checkerboards. The Ferry road can cut your travel time in the Bluegrass while you relive history and enjoy scenic views.