Pungo Ferry

Ferry on the North Landing River

A ferry. At Pungo Ferry. Well, this is Pungo and that is a ferry, but it’s not the Pungo Ferry ferry. Today, there is no ferry that carries passengers across the North Landing River from Pungo to Blackwater and back. The Pungo Ferry Bridge has replaced the ferry, but kept the name. How often do you see the words ferry and bridge in the same name? 

The high rise bridge that spans the river today was completed in 1991 and replaced the old steel turnstile bridge that used to connect the two banks of the river starting in 1928. Prior to that, a ferry shuttled people, vehicles and horses across the river. Throughout history there have been two other wooden drawbridges at Pungo Ferry - one was destroyed by a barge and the other vanished into history. 

The North Landing River is part of the Intracoastal Waterway and the ferry was traveling north.

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