How many ports of entry are in El Paso?

The Paso Del Norte bridge is located at 1000 S. El Paso Street on the U.S. side and on Juárez Avenue on the Mexican side. This port of entry is dedicated to pedestrians (northbound and southbound) and passenger vehicles (northbound) and includes Ready Lanes for travelers with identification documents that include RFID chips.

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Current Wait Times
How many border crossings are in El Paso?
What is the port of entry for El Paso Texas?
What is the busiest port of entry in Texas?
How many ports of entry are there in Texas?

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Source: The City of El Paso International Bridges Department

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Source: The City of El Paso International Bridges Department

Source: Fideicomiso de Puentes Fronterizos de Chihuahua

Current Wait Times

To United States

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20 minutes

5 open lanes

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25 minutes

3 open lanes

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10 minutes

4 open lanes

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15 minutes

3 open lanes

Wait time sources: Texas A&M Transportation Insitute BCIS for cargo trucks; CBP Border Wait Times for personal vehicles and pedestrians.
Camera feed: City of El Paso International Bridges Department.

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) Border Crossing Data provide summary statistics for inbound crossings at the U.S.-Canada and the U.S.-Mexico border at the port level. Data are available for trucks, trains, containers, buses, personal vehicles, passengers, and pedestrians. Border crossing data are collected at ports of entry by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The data reflect the number of vehicles, containers, passengers or pedestrians entering the United States. CBP does not collect comparable data on outbound crossings. Users seeking data on outbound counts may therefore want to review data from individual bridge operators, border state governments, or the Mexican and Canadian governments.

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Other Sources of Border Crossing Data

Niagara Falls Bridge Commission (Lewiston, Rainbow, Whirlpool Bridges)
Peace Bridge (Buffalo, New York – Fort Erie, Ontario)
Michigan and New York Bridges: Sault Ste. Marie, Blue Water, Thousand Islands, Seaway International
Whatcom Council of Governments – (Blaine, Lynden & Sumas, Washington & Surrey, Aldergrove & Huntington, British Columbia: Peace Arch, Pacific Highway, Lynden-Aldergrove, Sumas-Huntington border crossings)
California: Caltrans Performance Measurement System and SANDAG Transportation Forecast Information Center
Texas Center for Border Economic and Enterprise Development and TxDOT Open Data Portal
U.S. Customs and Border Protection: Locate a Port of Entry

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Note: CBP separated the Ysleta Port of Entry from the El Paso Port of Entry beginning on March 1, 2020.

How many border crossings are in El Paso?

There are six border crossings in the El Paso region that allow the cross-border movement of privately operated vehicles, pedestrians, buses, commercial trucks, or rail cars. Each of these bridges connect El Paso to its sister city, Ciudad Juárez, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.

What is the port of entry for El Paso Texas?

The El Paso BOTA Port of Entry, located at the Bridge of the Americas (BOTA), connecting Mexican Federal Highway 45 to the south and Interstate 110 to the north, is El Paso's highest volume border crossing, carrying more than half the vehicles (trucks and passenger cars) entering El Paso, Texas from Mexico.

What is the busiest port of entry in Texas?

It is among the busiest border crossings between the two countries: more than 10 million people enter the U.S. from Mexico each year at this location. ... .

How many ports of entry are there in Texas?

Texas has 29 official ports of entry that serve as critical gateways to global trade. A variety of these ports and their economic impacts are featured below. Each port, whether an airport, land port or seaport, serves many domestic and international economic activities across multiple industries.