St. Aurelie Border Crossing, Maine

This is the only officially open crossing on the 35 miles of the section of the border that follows the Southwest Branch of the St. John River (between the South Line and Little St. John Lake). Like the other four crossings on this remote part of the Maine/Quebec border, the crossing is used by the logging industry, as an entrance into the North Maine Woods, on the US side. This upper Southwest Branch of the St. John is a much smaller river than downstream, at Fort Kent, where the St. John becomes the border again. Here it is a stream, with considerable meanders, becoming narrow and shallow enough to walk across, which, no doubt, some people do.