Point Roberts/Boundary Bay Border Crossing, Washington
The Point Roberts/Boundary Bay crossing is the westernmost of the 118 or so official border crossings on the continental 48 states. It is the only crossing on Point Roberts, a peninsula that juts down from British Columbia and crosses the 49th Parallel, creating a few square miles of the USA surrounded by either water, or Canada. Roosevelt Road follows the boundary on the US side across the length of the 2.5 mile-wide peninsula, past back yards of Canadian houses, up against the boundary. New boundary markers place the line a few feet north of the trench, establishing an interstitial zone between a thorny trench in the US and backyard walls in Canada. Some people have gates in their back fence, and occupy the border vista line in a provisional way, with lawn furniture or trampolines.
