Estcourt Border Park, Maine

Border Park/Parc de la Frontiere is an international space at the very top of New England. The small park is bisected by the international boundary line, which is marked clearly in the park with a large boundary monument. To the southeast, the boundary follows the middle of the small meandering St. Francis River that drains Pohenegamook Lake, just the other side of the bridge, in Quebec. In the other direction, from the southwest, the boundary is a straight line, cutting through the community of Estcourt, and across the park. These two lines intersect in the river channel, a few feet from the park, between two bridges. A footbridge leaves the park from the US side, and travels over the river into Canada. The bridge was washed away in a flood years ago, and there was some uncertainty about rebuilding it, as it enables people to cross the border at a place where there is no Port of Entry. However, it was rebuilt, for pedestrians only, and enables people from the cut-off part of Estcourt to get to church and other places in the main part of town more directly, even if they are doing so by entering the USA, briefly.