Sumas/Abbotsford Border Crossing, Washington

Coming west out of the mountains, after passing by a gas plant on a pipeline crossing under the border, the border line comes to the town of Sumas, Washington, and the Sumas/Abbotsford crossing on Highway 9, where there is a large Port of Entry building on either side, and where, remarkably for such a built up crossing area, there are few structures of any kind directly on the line. This is the easternmost crossing on the line in the coastal valley of western Washington. Eastward the boundary heads into the Cascades, some of the most remote and jagged terrain on the whole continental boundary, with 125 miles to the next official road crossing.  Westward, though, there are several crossings in the few remaining miles before the Pacific end of the continent.