North Portal–Portal
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Crossing facts
- Open, travellers
- 24 hours a day, every day · Central Standard Time year-round — Saskatchewan does not observe daylight saving
- Open, commercial
- 24 hours a day, every day · no separate commercial window
- Road toll
- No toll listed · confirm with the route owner before you travel
- On foot or by bike
- Not published · call CBSA’s Border Information Service, 1-800-461-9999
- Allowed and restricted
- Passenger vehicles and commercial trucks · CBSA runs a Designated Commercial Office and a rail depot here · neither agency publishes a vehicle-restriction list for this office
- NEXUS / trusted-traveller lane
- None — CBSA’s office record lists no NEXUS lane at North Portal
- U.S.-bound reading
- Unavailable — CBP publishes no wait figure at all for Portal, North Dakota, though the port operates
- Also here
- Duty-Free Shop · Railway Depot · Electronic Data Interchange · Export Reporting · Courier Low Value Shipments · Electronic Longroom
Quick answers
What are the North Portal–Portal hours?
North Portal–Portal is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for both travellers and commercial traffic on the Canadian side, CBSA’s North Portal office record shows. There is no separate commercial window here, unlike many highway crossings. Trucks clear customs around the clock alongside passenger vehicles, and CBSA runs a Designated Commercial Office and a rail depot to handle the traffic. There is no NEXUS lane at this office.
Why does North Portal–Portal show no U.S.-bound wait time?
CBP does not publish Portal, North Dakota, in its wait-time feed at all: not a stale number, not an “Update Pending” placeholder, simply no entry for the port. That is a reporting gap, not a sign the U.S. side is closed: the Portal port of entry exists and operates opposite North Portal, and CBSA’s own hours confirm traffic moves both ways. CBP has just chosen not to report a delay figure for it, so as of 11 August 2026 the U.S.-bound card here reads “Unavailable.”
Can you walk across North Portal–Portal?
No official source cited on this page addresses travel on foot or by bicycle at North Portal–Portal. CBSA’s service vocabulary has no pedestrian code at all for any of its offices, so its absence here proves nothing one way or the other, and CBP publishes nothing about this port. Call CBSA’s Border Information Service at 1-800-461-9999 before planning to arrive on foot or by bike.
Hours, services and commercial clearance
Both directions of Canadian-side traffic run around the clock: CBSA lists North Portal as open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for regular travellers and for commercial trucks alike, with no separate business-hours window for freight the way some highway crossings have. Alongside the Highway/Land Border Office, CBSA’s record lists Electronic Data Interchange, a Duty-Free Shop, a Railway Depot, a Designated Commercial Office, Export Reporting, Courier Low Value Shipments and Electronic Longroom service.
There is no NEXUS lane at this office, so trusted-traveller members use the regular lanes the same as everyone else. No toll was found in the reviewed route and state inventories, but no route-owner statement confirms the crossing’s toll status, so treat it as unconfirmed. Fees for a specific commercial shipment are separate from a road toll. For anything not covered here, call CBSA’s Border Information Service on 1-800-461-9999.
About this corridor
Saskatchewan is the one place on this site that never changes its clock. The province stays on Central Standard Time, UTC−6, all year and does not observe daylight saving. Every other corridor Border Delays tracks shifts by an hour twice a year; North Portal–Portal does not, so instead of holding a fixed relationship with one neighbour, its clock drifts in and out of step with both. For roughly half the year, while Manitoba is also on standard time, North Portal keeps the same clock as Emerson and Winnipeg. For the other half, once Manitoba springs forward into Central Daylight Time, North Portal’s fixed UTC−6 lines up with Alberta’s Mountain Daylight Time instead. Every time shown for this crossing on this page is Central Standard Time, year-round.
Saskatchewan Highway 39 meets US Route 52 at this crossing, the main Saskatchewan–North Dakota road link. CBSA calls its office simply “North Portal” (office 604); the U.S. side is Portal, North Dakota. North Portal–Portal is the only crossing on this corridor, so there is no sibling crossing to compare it against.
The crossing carries real freight weight for a route this quiet by car count. CBSA runs a Designated Commercial Office here alongside a rail depot, and clears trucks around the clock rather than on a business-hours schedule. It is a working freight gateway more than a tourist route.