# What borders (or state lines, etc) have you crossed on foot? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 11, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644 "2011-07-11T17:06:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/21 "2011-07-11T18:07:38Z")
When I was I kid, I’m certain we walked across the Rainbow Bridge one time in Niagara Falls, so that would be ON \<-\> NY and Canada \<-\> USA. I’ve also walked across the Alexandria Bridge between Ottawa and Gatineau, so that’s ON \<-\> QC. I think that’s about it. I’ve never lived near any interprovincial or international borders. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/22 "2011-07-11T18:12:57Z")
I’ve walked across the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border at Salisbury Beach/Hampton Beach many times Walked across the Rainbow Bridge at Niagara Falls, as others have. Walked across the Nevada/Califorbia border at Stateline, on Lake Tahoe many times. Crossed the Utah/Nevada border at Wendover, whose only purpose in life is to be the closest point on the Nevada border to Salt Lake City. I’ve been near plenty of others (New Jersey/New York, US/Mexico , New Jersey/Pennsylvania), but not crossed over them on foot. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/23 "2011-07-11T18:19:34Z")
Arizona/Colorado/Utah/New Mexico. I ran a lap around the [Four Corners monument](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Corners_Monument)and did the pushup like the kid in the picture. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/24 "2011-07-11T18:20:56Z")
Just remembered 2 more, US \> Mexico, walk across Rio Grande at Santa Elena Canyon. US \> Yukon Territory, Canada. Way the hell north of any roads in the wilderness, the border between the US and Canada is a line of trees that’s been clear cut. It extends for hundreds of miles out in the wilderness. We landed on it in a helicopter somewhere north of where the Yukon Rivers enters and spent about 30 minutes just walking around marvelling at it. Zoom into it w/ Google maps and remove the labels. You can see the clean line of vegetation, the international border. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/25 "2011-07-11T18:29:06Z")
And MD to DE and reverse. Ocean City \<\> Fenwick. ---
**Author:** ![newme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e0b2c6/32.png) [@newme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newme)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/26 "2011-07-11T18:29:43Z")
I swam/waded the Rio Grande in Big Bend NP (near the Hot Springs) from Texas to Mexico. I crossed from Minnesota to Ontario in a canoe. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/27 "2011-07-11T18:33:41Z")
Oh wait I do remember one. While living in Ottawa I walked from Ontario to Quebec several times. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/28 "2011-07-11T18:41:49Z")
Many times NC-SC, especially as a child at Carowinds. I’ve done the whole Four Corners pictures thing too, so there’s that. I walked across the border to Mexico once. There may be more but I can’t think of them. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/29 "2011-07-11T18:58:45Z")
US/Canada (Peace Arch Park, Point Roberts, and the Klondike Highway) Italy/Vatican City Washington/Oregon - bicycle BC/Alberta - horseback (does that count?) but looking at the list, surprisingly few. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/30 "2011-07-11T19:02:44Z")
> [@newme](#): > > I swam/waded the Rio Grande in Big Bend NP (near the Hot Springs) from Texas to Mexico. Oh yeah, the partial building remains right on the river down from Rio Grande Village? Forgot about that one. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/31 "2011-07-11T19:34:31Z")
You can take a pleasant stroll over the IL-IN border at the Lincoln Memorial Bridge, which abuts the George Rogers Clark Memorial near Vincennes. Or a not-so-pleasant stroll on State Line Avenue on the East Side of Chicago. One time I stayed in a hotel on the UT-NV border where the rooms were in Utah but the office, restaurant, and slot machines (of course) were in Nevada. I got a lot of crosses of the UT-NV border that night. One common foot crossing, that I suspect other people are forgetting–in Cincinnati, a lot of the closest hotels are in KY, and you walk over the foot bridges to OH. My family has a picture of me as a 10-year-old, straddling the TX-Ar border at the Texarkana City Hall. Also I’ve done Four Corners, Cumberland Gap, Clingman’s Done, Harpers Ferry, and all of the other low-hanging fruit. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/32 "2011-07-11T19:34:31Z")
Bicycle: Canada-US Washington-Oregon Oregon-California US-Mexico Foot: California-Nevada. I believe that the CalNeva Resort is on the border. Nevada-Arizona Hoover dam. USA-Mexico Brazil-Paraguay Argentina-Brazil (same day at Iguazu Falls). Chile Argentina. Thailand Cambodia Several countries in Africa that I can’t remember. (You had to walk through customs). Spain-France. Possibly Malaysia-Singapore and Thailand-Malaysia but I can’t remember. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/33 "2011-07-11T19:35:23Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Right now I live half a mile from the RI-MA border, but never crossed it on foot. Maybe I’ll do it just to double the number. I don’t think I’ve done it either. But I was in a house in S. Attleboro and I asked the owner where the border was. He pointed at a house across the street and said it went through that guy’s living room. I once stood in a tiny little island with a marker on it that denoted the US-Canadian border. We thought we were very cool straddling it. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/34 "2011-07-11T19:40:51Z")
Crossed between Kenya and Tanzania at Namanga. 1987, had flown into Nairobi (in Kenya) intent on climbing Kilimanjaro (in Tanzania). Got a ride from Nairobi to the border, but vehicle was not allowed to cross into Tanzania; we had to walk across and find another ride the rest of the way to Moshi. I don’t recall for certain, but I’ve probably walked between North Dakota and Minnesota when I was a student at NDSU. Fargo and Moorhead are on opposite sides of the Red River, and there are several parks with pedestrian/bicycle bridges that span the river. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/35 "2011-07-11T19:42:01Z")
California/Nevada - at Lake Tahoe Nevada/Arizona - at Hoover Dam US/Mexico - at Tijuana Can’t think of any others. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/36 "2011-07-11T19:53:40Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > U.S. - Canada > U.S. - Mexico > California - Arizona What was the occasion to walk into Arizona? ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/37 "2011-07-11T19:55:42Z")
DC-\>VA NC-\>TN TN-\>NC WV-\>MD On a bike: IL-\>WI WI-\>IL ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/38 "2011-07-11T20:00:50Z")
We were in Needles. Why, I couldn’t tell you. But several of us walked across Levee Way. I’ve also rafted, sailed and canoed between the two states several times, and walked across Parker Dam. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/39 "2011-07-11T20:02:27Z")
Walked from NC to SC (courtesy of visits to Carowinds theme park). Biked from VA to DC, which doesn’t entirely count (“on foot”) but it was under my own power at least. Other than that: none that I can think of! ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/40 "2011-07-11T20:07:27Z")
VA/TN - State Street separates these two states in the city of Bristol, on and around which the [Rhythm and Roots](http://www.bristolrhythm.com/) music festival is held. Each year, I cross back and forth between the two states hundreds of times. NC/SC - I too have been to Carowinds amusement park and crossed the border there. MD/DC - I’ve walked across Connecticut Ave from Chevy Chase, MD into Washington, DC. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644.md?page=3)