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The Clair–Fort Kent Bridge is a steel truss bridge crossing the Saint John River between Clair, New Brunswick in Canada and Fort Kent, Maine in the United States. The bridge handles approximately 279,490 vehicle crossings per year and forms a border crossing on the International Boundary .
The Fort Kent–Clair Border Crossing is at the Clair–Fort Kent Bridge that connects the town of Fort Kent, Maine, with Clair, New Brunswick, on the Canada–United States border. It marks the northern terminus of U.S. Route 1. This crossing first opened in 1905 with the construction of a footbridge that traversed the Saint John River. A ...
SR 161 stays on Main Street while US 1 turns onto the Clair–Fort Kent Bridge towards Canada. The road passes directly in front of the U.S. Customs station at the Fort Kent–Clair Border Crossing. Now closely paralleling the St. Johns River, Main Street continues past more houses before the surroundings become more rural.
The Fort Kent CDP is located at (47.254945, −68.585421), [3] along the Saint John River, which forms the northern border of the town as well as the Canada–United States border The northern terminus of U.S. Route 1 is near the center of the CDP, at the bridge across the Saint John River into Clair , New Brunswick.
North from Calais, US 1 follows the Canadian border, crossing I-95 in Houlton and eventually turning west and southwest to its "north" end at the Clair–Fort Kent Bridge in Fort Kent. The short Route 161 extends north on the New Brunswick (Canada) side of the bridge to Route 120 , a secondary east–west route from Edmundston , New Brunswick ...
Bridge pillars and pylons for the new North Causeway Bridge project are seen looking westward from the North Causeway, A1A, on North Hutchinson Island, on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, in Fort Pierce.
Vehicles over 5 tons will be rerouted to the Fort Kent–Clair Border Crossing located 33 kilometres (21 mi) west or the Saint Leonard–Van Buren Bridge located 41 kilometres (25 mi) southeast of Edmundston. Construction on a new bridge, intended to serve as a replacement, began in May 2021.
From Madawaska to its "northern" terminus at the Clair–Fort Kent Bridge in Fort Kent, US 1 north actually travels geographically south. [3] The route's most northerly geographic point is at its intersection with the Edmundston–Madawaska Bridge in Madawaska, across the Saint John River from Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada.