Getting to Kipawa

[Hodgey1]

Unfortunately, you hit the July 4th weekend traffic at your Peace Bridge crossing on 7/7.  This past weekend on my return from Kipawa, the Lewiston Bridge was a 35 minute wait. I live in the Western NY area and always take the Lewiston/Queenston Bridge entering and leaving Canada.

I agree with @Paul , the holiday traffic is what did you in. We just came back from Kipawa Saturday and we took the Hamilton to Welland byass of the QEW. The App "WAZE" showed the QEW at a stop, on and off, the entire way from ETR to Fort Erie. The bypass worked great for the second time now coming back to the States. However, we did have an extended wait at the Peace Bridge, due to a Canadian Holiday last week? We popped out onto the QEW off of the 25. It ended up being a hour wait at the border, which is worse than normal, but not terrible.

Like has been mentioned here, check the bridge wait time here : https://apps.cbp.gov/bwt/mobile.asp?action=n&pn=0901 and here  https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/bwt-taf/menu-eng.html or call this number "I have it on auto dial" it is automated, but does not give Peace Bridge times: 1-800-715-6722 and for the Peace Bridge, you have to call and talk to a human 1-905-871-1608

[FSZ]

Yeah, I guess it was “holiday” traffic. With Canada day being on July 1, independence on the 4th (Thursday) wasn’t anticipating traffic. I guess the saying Thursday is the new Friday applies.

Not much can be done about the bridge except check the wait times, thanks for the links. I will be trying the bypass route from Etr to the bridge.