Eastport/Kingsgate Border Crossing, Idaho

The Eastport/Kingsgate crossing is one of two official crossings along Idaho’s 45 miles of the international border. It is located on US Highway 95, which goes south all the way to the Mexican border, past Yuma, Arizona. It is a mountainous crossing, but is still fairly busy with truck traffic, connecting British Columbia to the US Interstate system at I-90, a hundred miles south. There are a few businesses and homes in the small community of Eastport, on the line on the US side, and large truck to rail freight yard on the west side of town, next to a major pipeline crossing, with a pump station on the Canadian side.