Door-to-door Lakes car shipping with a road leg to Tacoma and the sailing to Anchorage, lake drives met at the top, and boats booked as freight on the same ship.
Ship A Car, Inc. arranges door-to-door vehicle transport for Lakes, the community of lake-lot homes between Wasilla and Palmer, where the drives wind down to docks and float-plane slips on a dozen lakes, the Parks Highway runs the south edge, the commute to Anchorage runs an hour down the Glenn, the winter turns the lakes into snowmachine highways, and the Anchorage terminal, where the car lands, is that same hour away. Your car rides with a licensed, insured carrier we vet before it is assigned, and then with an ocean carrier on a booked sailing.
A Lakes move is the Anchorage relay with a short last leg and the lake drives told straight: a truck brings the car to the Port of Tacoma, a weekly sailing lifts it to Anchorage in three to seven days, and the car either waits at the terminal for you to collect or rides up the highway on a truck that meets a lake drive at the top. Door to door, plan on one to two weeks from Puget Sound and three to five weeks from most other lower-48 origins. Families arriving for a house on the water, Anchorage commuters moving out for the room, retirees settling on a lake, and households heading back south are the shipments we see most. The paved streets take the truck to the door; a lake drive that winds down to the water meets it at the top, a gravel road meets it at the pavement, agreed at booking, and break-up turns the gravel to mud for a few weeks every April.
Speak with a coordinator now at (866) 821-4555 for pickup or delivery at any address in Lakes, Wasilla, Palmer, or Meadow Lakes, or request an estimate by email through the quote calculator.
For statewide corridors, seasonal notes, and pricing, see our complete Alaska car shipping guide.
A drive that winds down to a dock has grades and turns a loaded rig cannot make, so those addresses get a meeting point at the top fixed when you book, or collect the car at the terminal.
Collecting the car in Anchorage saves the valley leg and most Lakes households do; having it trucked up the highway saves the trip, and we quote both.
Enter your lane, vehicle, and dates in the quote calculator and the Lakes estimate arrives by email, before a specialist phones to confirm both parts, trucking and sailing. One coordinator handles the move from booking to the delivery inspection.
A Lakes quote is trucking to Tacoma, the sailing to Anchorage, and the hour up the highway if you want it. Five things move your number:
Lakes callers ask about price before anything else. Alaska books enough orders on the two Puget Sound lanes for a reliable middle, so the bands below are standard-sedan orders between Seattle or Tacoma and Alaska that we have booked since 2023, trucking to the Tacoma terminal and the sailing north to Anchorage, shown as the middle of the market rather than the cheapest or the most expensive order.
Planning figures, not a quote. A lower-48 origin beyond Puget Sound adds the trucking to Tacoma, the hour up the highway adds a short leg, and a pickup or a non-running car prices above a sedan. Use the quote calculator for an emailed estimate on your route to Lakes, or call (866) 821-4555 and a coordinator will quote it. No deposit is taken until a carrier is assigned to your move.
A dozen of them hold the homes, and the drives down to the docks meet the truck at the top.
The slips share the shore with the docks, and the winter turns the lakes into snowmachine highways.
April turns the gravel to mud for a few weeks, and the hand-offs wait at the pavement.
Anchorage and the terminal are an hour down the Glenn, and most households collect the car there.
Please note: Estimates on this page are middle-of-the-market bands for standard sedans from Alaska lanes booked since 2023, trucking to Tacoma plus the sailing to Anchorage; the guide figures are published planning ranges. Season, origin, vessel schedule, and vehicle move the real number; a specialist confirms the accurate figure for the Lakes chain after the calculator’s emailed estimate.
