What is the name of the border crossing between Gilead and Canada in the TV series?

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The border crossing between Gilead and Canada shown in the TV series is the Rainbow Bridge. The bridge is associated with the Niagara Falls area and provides a stark physical link between Gilead’s authoritarian territory and Canada, where refugees seek safety.

In the series, the crossing is more than a geographic location. It represents the dangerous threshold between two political worlds: Gilead’s militarized theocracy and Canada’s comparatively free society. Characters approach the border under surveillance, with armed guards, checkpoints and the constant threat of capture.

Rainbow Bridge is easy to confuse with the Peace Bridge or Ambassador Bridge, other real crossings in the Great Lakes region. Those names belong to different bridges and are not the answer used for the crossing identified in the show. The series also depicts other escape routes, including forests, roads and informal border areas, but Rainbow Bridge is the named crossing connected with the Gilead–Canada boundary.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Aug. 2026

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