# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Spiny\_Norman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiny_Norman)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/81 "2011-07-15T18:56:08Z")
The Three Frontiers Hash once set a trail that took us running through Belgium, Germany and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, neatly adding a set of border violations to the implicit Hashing condition of “drunk and disorderly”. Good times. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/82 "2011-07-15T18:59:33Z")
I’ve crossed the DC/Virginia and DC/Maryland borders on foot - quite often, actually. I’m sure most DC Dopers have as well. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/83 "2011-07-15T19:31:14Z")
CA - NV more times than I can remember in the Lake Tahoe area. Italy - Vatican City ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/84 "2011-07-15T20:23:33Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > 😕 British say ‘underage drinking’ too. Never heard ‘ **Of** age drinking’. No, I’m being nitpicky. The point I was trying to make was that once in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, **jjimm** was legally _of_ drinking age. He was not drinking underage in Ontario; he was of the legal age required under Ontario law. Now, had he gone into a bar in Niagara Falls, NY, USA, where the legal age is 21, he would have been underage. But to say he was “underage drinking at Niagara [Falls, Ontario]” is incorrect; unless, of course, he was 18 or younger at the time. I suppose it would have been clearer had he said something like, “I crossed the bridge from the US to Canada at Niagara Falls because I was 20, and I couldn’t get alcohol in New York because I was underage; so I walked to Ontario where I was of the legal drinking age (19) and hit a bar.” But he didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/85 "2011-07-16T10:37:07Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > No, I’m being nitpicky. The point I was trying to make was that once in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, **jjimm** was legally _of_ drinking age. He was not drinking underage in Ontario; he was of the legal age required under Ontario law. > > Now, had he gone into a bar in Niagara Falls, NY, USA, where the legal age is 21, he would have been underage. But to say he was “underage drinking at Niagara [Falls, Ontario]” is incorrect; unless, of course, he was 18 or younger at the time. > > I suppose it would have been clearer had he said something like, “I crossed the bridge from the US to Canada at Niagara Falls because I was 20, and I couldn’t get alcohol in New York because I was underage; so I walked to Ontario where I was of the legal drinking age (19) and hit a bar.” But he didn’t. How do you know he wasn’t 17 at the time? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/86 "2011-07-16T14:41:12Z")
VA-DC Italy-Vatican I’ve also walked across the Equator and the Arctic Circle, but I guess that doesn’t count. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/87 "2011-07-17T00:06:10Z")
Iraq into Turkey, Iraq into Kuwait, Kosovo into Macedonia. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/88 "2011-07-17T00:29:23Z")
[Egypt -Israe](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taba_Border_Crossing)l (both ways.) Mexico to the U.S. Nevada - Arizona. England - Wales (not sure if that counts as an “international border” though.) I’ve crossed a ton of other borders, both within the U.S. and internationally, but I think they’ve all been by car, train, plane, boat, bus, etc. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/89 "2011-07-17T04:23:54Z")
ME-NH several times: once while hiking in the White Mountains, and many times by crossing bridges on the Piscataqua River and Salmon Falls River. NH-VT at least once across a bridge near Hanover NH NH-MA at least once on a hiking trail between Nashua and Pepperell California-Mexico once between San Diego and Tijuana many years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/90 "2011-07-17T11:04:29Z")
Italy \> Vatican \> Italy Possibly also Austria \> Lichtenstein as well, but since we didn’t see any signs or anything, no one was completely sure, so we pretended we had. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/91 "2011-07-17T20:23:00Z")
Bicycle: WI / MN (La Crosse) WI / MN (Wabasha) MN / IA (Eitzen) Although I’ve come very very close, I have not crossed from MI to WI or Canada Foot: MN/ WI (Taylor’s Falls) Kayak: MN / WI Brian ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/92 "2011-07-18T00:23:20Z")
Not a border, but last week I was staying at a safari camp in Kenya, and the Equator ran straight through the middle of it. I crossed between the southern and northern hemispheres numerous times while I was there. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/93 "2011-07-18T03:39:37Z")
Walked across: Rhode Island-Massachusetts Vermont-Massachusetts Vermont-New Hampshire (bridge over the Connecticut River) Massachusetts-Connecticut Massachusetts-New York New York-Connecticut (these last three, among other times, on the same day hike) Indiana-Michigan Ohio-Michigan Delaware-Pennsylvania West Virginia-Maryland (via a bridge) Tennessee-North Carolina * * * Snowshoed across: New Jersey-New York * * * Swam across: Pennsylvania-New Jersey (yup, the OP’s original example) * * * Biked across: VT-MA VT-NH NH-MA (all 3 again on one day) VT-NY CT-NY PA-NJ ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/94 "2011-07-18T16:56:57Z")
Should also have added via kayak – NH/VT and PA/NJ. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/95 "2011-07-18T19:15:48Z")
The farm where I grew up is on the state line between South Dakota and Minnesota - the farmhouse is in SD and the mailbox at the end of the driveway is in MN. So I might actually win this contest, having crossed the state line thousands of times to and from school. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/96 "2011-07-18T19:28:06Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > The farm where I grew up is on the state line between South Dakota and Minnesota - the farmhouse is in SD and the mailbox at the end of the driveway is in MN. So I might actually win this contest, having crossed the state line thousands of times to and from school. Was your address MN or SD? Did the local post office handle both SD and MN mail (wouldn’t think so)? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/97 "2011-07-19T00:31:53Z")
Other than Italy/Vatican City, the only other one is that I’m sure I must have walked across the Canada/U.S. border as a small child when we were living in the Eastern Townships, but I have no proof of this. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/98 "2011-07-19T01:09:22Z")
I’ve been on top of Hoover Dam and did a little back and forth thing between Arizona and Nevada for a few minutes until my brother told me to cut it out. I stayed in a motel in Baker, Nevada and was told that the state line with Utah ran through the motel. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/99 "2011-07-19T01:26:16Z")
NSW/VIC NSW/ACT NSW/QLD Italy/Vatican City USA/Canada ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644/100 "2011-07-19T13:35:10Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > No, I’m being nitpicky. The point I was trying to make was that once in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, **jjimm** was legally _of_ drinking age. He was not drinking underage in Ontario; he was of the legal age required under Ontario law. > > Now, had he gone into a bar in Niagara Falls, NY, USA, where the legal age is 21, he would have been underage. But to say he was “underage drinking at Niagara [Falls, Ontario]” is incorrect; unless, of course, he was 18 or younger at the time. > > I suppose it would have been clearer had he said something like, “I crossed the bridge from the US to Canada at Niagara Falls because I was 20, and I couldn’t get alcohol in New York because I was underage; so I walked to Ontario where I was of the legal drinking age (19) and hit a bar.” But he didn’t. Your middle paragraph is correct: I was 17 and we’d heard that the Canucks were unlikely to check our ID. We were right. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-borders-or-state-lines-etc-have-you-crossed-on-foot/588644.md?page=6)