Your 2025 Arnold Season Pass already carries the winter enchantment within it, no surcharge required. Just show your pass, and the ferry shall welcome you, snowflakes and all.

Shepler’s resident pass can be used, but it requires the $5 winter surcharge ticket for each 1-way passage.

Shepler’s 2025 seasonal, commuter, and regular tickets cannot be used for Arnold Transit Company’s 2025–2026 Winter Service. You will need to purchase an Arnold Transit Company ticket to ride during the winter season.

You bet! Your 2025–2026 Winter Standard and Commuter Tickets will happily sail you into the 2026 summer sun. But take note, no refunds or exchanges will take place in exchange for converting Winter tickets to Summer Tickets. All 2025/ 2026 winter tickets will be set to expire October 31, 2026.

Your 2025 Traditional Fast Ferry and Commuter Tickets will work this winter with the purchase of a $10 winter surcharge ticket ($5 each way) .

Alas, Summer’s St Ignace Classic Ferry Tickets cannot don a winter coat—even with a surcharge winter surcharge ticket. The Classic Ferry experience (and tickets) have a limited schedule and offering and only sail in the summer sunshine. Sorry, this ticket cannot be used with a winter surcharge ticket for winter service.

Sorry sailors, annual passes cannot be snipped, trimmed, or sold at a prorated price.

No refunds hide beneath the ice but fret not! Your 2025-2026 Winter Service tickets will carry you across the waves all the way through October 31, 2026.

 If you are day parking only at the Classic Lot, no registration is required. All other vehicles parking in Arnold Transit Lots need a valid parking permit or can register for day or overnight parking by using the QR codes posted in the McGreggor Lot. For more details, please visit one of our ticket offices where staff will be happy to assist in making sure you have a pass or valid daily/ overnight parking.

Each Arnold Transit pass is connected to a license plate and parking lot so your pass won’t transfer from one vehicle to another depending on what vehicle you bring for the day. All Arnold Transit Parking Passes are license plate and lot location specific.

If you get a new vehicle and want to transfer your pass to a new vehicle, no problem. Come into the office and our staff will transfer to a new license plate number at no charge. 

Arnold’s parking is lot specific, however there are a limited number of spots available this winter in St Ignace that 2025 Mackinaw City parkers can transfer to for the 2025- 2026 winter service only. Please contact our ticket office for more details. 

During the 2025-2026 Winter Service the LaSalle Lot in St Ignace is not plowed. To avoid being snowed in vehicles can move to the Railroad Lot, or winter parking can be purchased at the McGreggor Lot next to the dock for the 2025-2026 Winter Service.

For the 2025-2026 Winter Service there are a limited number of indoor secured valet spots available for $1200 (November 1, 2025 through April 20, 2026). The Winter Service parking at Railroad Lot, Classic Lot and McGreggor Lot is unsecured.

Yes you can! Your 2025 Railroad lot parking pass is valid until April 20, 2026 in the Railroad Lot. 

We always try to make sure all travelers have boarded the boat before it departs, but once the clock strikes the departure time and the staff pulls the ramp the boat will depart to maintain the schedule. Our shuttles have limited capacity and start their shuttle service 30 minutes before the first departure time. If you are a last minute traveler, we recommend purchasing a pass in the McGreggor Lot to park at the dock so you can walk right up to the boat and catch your planned departure time. 

In the event Winter Ice Conditions do not permit safe passage of the Arnold Transit Ferry for more than 5 days, Arnold Transit will temporally suspend shuttle service (after the 5th day) until Ferry Service is able to resume.