US Sees 33% Drop in Car Trips by Canadians as Summer Travel Starts
A vehicle crosses into the US on the US-Canada border in Lubec, Maine.
Photographer: Don Emmert/AFP/Getty ImagesCanadians are committed to ditching US travel, taking the fewest number of car trips there in the year’s first half since at least 2017, excluding the pandemic.
Over the past six months, Canadians returned from just 8 million trips, well below the 11 million entries during the same period in 2024, according to Statistics Canada data released Thursday. In June, Canadian-resident return trips by automobile from the US plunged 33.1% from a year ago.