Boundary-Waneta Border Crossing

Boundary-Waneta Border Crossing
US Border Inspection Station at Boundary, Washington
Location
Country	United States; Canada
Location	US Port:5338 Northport Waneta Road, Colville, WA 99114 Canadian Port:10290 Highway 22A, Salmo BC V0G 1Z0
Coordinates	49°00′03″N 117°37′30″W / 49.000742°N 117.62505°W
Details
Opened	1865
US Phone	[phone]
Canadian Phone	[phone]
Hours	9:00AM - 5:00PM
Website http://www.cbp.gov/contact/ports/oroville-wa

The Boundary-Waneta Border Crossing connects the town of Northport, Washington with Trail, British Columbia on the Canada–US border. Canada has had a customs office at or near this crossing since 1865, initially to inspect vessels arriving via the Columbia River, then to inspect trains with the completion of the Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway in 1893.

Motor vehicles did not cross the border here until 1945, when a new rail bridge was built across the mouth of the Pend Oreille River parallel to the existing bridge about 2000 feet north of the border. The rails were then removed from the old bridge to accommodate one lane of vehicular traffic.^[1] Still, inspection stations did not exist at the border until Canada first built an inspection facility in 1975 and the US built a facility in 1978. In 2013, the US built a new border station a few hundred yards south of the 1978 facility.

See also

• List of Canada–United States border crossings

References

1. "Waneta Bridge". Retrieved 2015-01-08.