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BorderBug: Whatcom County – British Columbia border crossing tracker
A free tool to check border crossing wait times, weather, and traffic cams along the U.S.-Canada border between Whatcom County, Washington and the Lower Mainland of British Columbia — in both directions of travel
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Real-time data from 3 sources: Road sensors + U.S. & Canadian border agencies (more info in NOTE section below)
Click dot to see wait times
Relative locations from west to east
Limited data available. Point Roberts is a remote U.S. exclave.
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📝 NOTE: How BorderBug Works
To give you a more complete picture of conditions at the border, BorderBug crawls through multiple sources: road sensor data from the Whatcom Council of Governments (a regional transportation planning agency) and estimates from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (U.S.-bound traffic only) and the Canada Border Services Agency (Canada-bound traffic only).
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Whatcom Council of Governments
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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Canada Border Services Agency
Since these are different sources with different methodologies, they often differ in what they report. That's why this dashboard displays data from all three simultaneously.
BorderBug refreshes automatically every 5 minutes. "N/A" indicates data is not currently available from that source. Weather and traffic cams provided for additional context.
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About
My name is Benjamin Payne, and I live in Bellingham, Washington. After having moved here in 2025, I realized that there existed no online dashboard to check wait times at all five ports of entry along the U.S.-Canada border in Whatcom County. So, I made this web app. It retrieves the latest available border crossing wait times, traffic cam images, and weather conditions — from a multitude of otherwise messy government datasets — and presents it all in a clean layout.
I will always make sure BorderBug is free, but if you'd like, you can…
(after all, this is the Pacific Northwest ☕)
If you have any suggestions on how this tool could be improved, please feel free to email me here. I enjoy tinkering with the code to improve the app's look, feel, and functionality.