Whitetail/Big Beaver Border Crossing, Montana

With just a few cars a day, the Whitetail/Big Beaver crossing, was one of the least used crossings on the entire continental USA/Canada border, so it was closed a few years ago. The Canadian Port of Entry was demolished after it was closed in 2011, and the road has since been barricaded, a few feet inside the US. The US Port of Entry was closed in 2013, but is still there, frozen in time, with the radiation detectors and other monitoring equipment removed. Even the remote video kiosk, once used for after hours crossings by pre-approved locals with a card, is still there. There were plans to build a new “post-9/11” style Port of Entry here, like at most of the other crossing in the region. The grading of the grounds had started already, before the decision to close it instead was made- a wise choice. With 545 miles along the 49^th Parallel, Montana has the longest stretch of the straight border. But with only 13 open crossing points, averaging out to one every 42 miles, it is the least crossed.