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There are a number of crossings of the Mexico–United States border.
This table includes only those roads where the governments of either the US or Mexico once had Customs or Immigration services.
Also included are places where certain legitimate vehiclular or vessel traffic has been permitted to cross the border in recent years.
| Structure (if applicable) | United States road/highway |
United States port of entry |
Mexico road/highway |
Mexico port of entry |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Avenue | San Ysidro, California | Via de la Juventud Oriente | Tijuana, Baja California | For many years, all trucks entering the U.S. from Tijuana were inspected at this border crossing just west of the Interstate 5 crossing. It closed in 1984 when the Otay Mesa, California crossing was completed, and where all truck traffic is now inspected. | |
| Forest Gate Road | Campo, California | (unnamed road) | Encinal, Baja California | Once a popular crossing for tourists in the early 1900s, this crossing was permanently closed during World War II | |
| San Miguel Road | Sells, Arizona | (unnamed road) | El Bajio, Sonora | This crossing, also known also as "the Gate" has never been a legal border crossing for most people. Nomadic Native Americans are permitted use this gate to traverse their land on both sides of the border. | |
| Duquesne Road | Lochiel, Arizona | Carretera a la Noria | Santa Cruz de Noria, Sonora | Station of Nogales which closed around 1980 due to lack of traffic. Both border inspection buildings remain. | |
| Hammett Boulevard | El Paso, Texas | Ave. Lincoln | Juarez, Chihuahua | When the waters of an 1897 Rio Grande flood receded, the river was found to have changed course, resulting in 386 acres of Mexican territory called "Cordova Island" situated north of the river. Boundary markers and a fence were eventually deployed. In 1959, a border crossing opened on the East side of the island. In 1963, Presidents Kennedy and Ordaz signed the Chamizal treaty which redistributed land in the area between the US and Mexico. The place where the Cordova crossing was located (which used to be the only Texas-Mexico border crossing not at the Rio Grande) now lies on Mexican land. The crossing closed in 1967 when the new Bridge of the Americas crossing opened where the new Rio Grande channel and boundary was established.[1] | |
| La Linda International Bridge | Ranch to Market Road 2627 | La Linda, Texas | La Linda, Coahuila | Bridge crossing was closed in 1989, but the barricaded bridge remains. Mexico had a border inspection station but the US did not. | |
| Trevino Street | San Ygnacio, Texas | (unnamed road) | San Ignacio, Tamaulipas | A motor boat served as a passenger ferry during the 1950s and 1960s.[2] | |
| Zapata-Guerrero Bridge | Zapata, Texas | Guerrero, Tamaulipas | Suspension toll bridge was built in 1931. In 1954, Falcon Dam was completed, leaving the old town of Zapata and what was left of the bridge at the bottom of the Falcon International Reservoir. A new town center was constructed on higher ground outside town.[3] | ||
| Thayer Bridge | Mercedes, Texas | Rio Rico, Tamaulipas | The Thayer Bridge (also called the Rio Rico Bridge) was built in 1928 and was destroyed in a flood in 1941. It was located about 2 miles downstream from where the Progreso bridge would later be built. After its destruction, temporary service was provided by ferry and pontoon bridge, but all service had ended by 1946. In 1970, it was discovered that Rio Rico had actually been located on US soil all along.[4] |
| Mexico rail company |
Mexico nearest community |
United States rail company |
United States nearest community |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ferrocarriles CZRY de Baja California | Tijuana | Carrizo Gorge Railway | San Ysidro | Operated along the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway's Main Line. |
| Mexicali | Calexico | Rail tracks lie within the median of the road crossing from Mexican Federal Highway 5 to California State Route 111. |
| Mexico rail company |
Mexico nearest community |
United States rail company |
United States nearest community |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nogales | Nogales | Rail tracks lie within the median of the road crossing. |
| Structure | Mexico rail company |
Mexico nearest community |
United States rail company |
United States nearest community |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EP&SW bridge | Ciudad Juárez | El Paso | There are two railroad bridges over the Rio Grande that lie to the west and east of Paso del Norte International Bridge. | ||
| Presidio–Ojinaga International Rail Bridge | FXE | Ojinaga | TXPF | Presidio | Bridge is temporarily closed due to a fire. |
| Structure | Mexico rail company |
Mexico nearest community |
United States rail company |
United States nearest community |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Union Pacific International Railroad Bridge | FXE | Piedras Negras | UP | Eagle Pass |
| Structure | Mexico rail company |
Mexico nearest community |
United States rail company |
United States nearest community |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Mexican Railway International Bridge | KCSM | Nuevo Laredo | TM | Laredo | |
| Brownsville & Matamoros International Bridge | FXE | Matamoros | UP | Brownsville | The road and rail bridges are adjacent, go by the same name, and are partially owned by the Union Pacific Railroad.[5] |
| Mexico rail company |
Mexico nearest community |
United States rail company |
United States nearest community |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ferrocarriles CZRY de Baja California | Tecate | Carrizo Gorge Railway & Pacific Southwest Railway Museum | Campo | The museum's Ticket to Tecate passenger train service was suspended in January 2010 due to a fire in tunnel #3.[6] This crossing lies along the SD&AE's Desert Line. |
| Mexico rail company |
Mexico nearest community |
United States rail company |
United States nearest community |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ferromex | Naco | Naco | The Ferrocarril Naco-Cananea was built around 1900 as a mining railroad. The rail line used to lie between South Pratt Avenue and South Friend Drive in Arizona. | |
| Agua Prieta | Phelps Dodge | Douglas | Rail tracks lie just to the west of Avenida Ferrocarril (Railway Avenue) in Agua Prieta and to the west of Pan American Avenue (U.S. Route 191) in Douglas. The line was used by the Phelps Dodge Corporation for mineral transport. Jesús García died along this line in 1907. |
| Structure | Mexico rail company |
Mexico nearest community |
United States rail company |
United States nearest community |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ciudad Juárez | National City Lines | El Paso | Trolley line ran through city streets including the border crossing until the late 1960s. | ||
| Presidio–Ojinaga International Rail Bridge | FXE | Ojinaga | TXPF | Presidio | Bridge is temporarily closed due to a fire and is expected to reopen. |
| Waterway | Ferry company | Mexico ferry terminal |
United States ferry terminal |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rio Grande | Los Ebanos Ferry | Gustavo Díaz Ordaz | Los Ebanos | This is a hand operated cable ferry. |
| Waterway | Ferry company | Mexico ferry terminal |
United States ferry terminal |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gulf of Mexico | CG Railway Ferrosur | Port of Coatzacoalcos in Coatzacoalcos | Terminal Railway Alabama State Docks in Mobile | MV Bali Sea and MV Banda Sea are train ferries that ply the 1,400-kilometre (870 mi) route carrying freight railcars. |