[1] The crossing is open daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mountain Time and is staffed by a single U.S. Customs and Border Protection employee.

[4] Antelope Wells receives the least traffic of any Mexico–United States border crossing, so little that the CBP does not report official statistics for the facility.

However, it was reported in January 2017 that construction was on hold with about 1 mile (1.6 km) still consisting of a rutted dirt track.

[5] The Antelope Wells border crossing was established in 1872 under President Ulysses S. Grant and was named after a nearby ranch.

To avoid an extended road walk along Highway 81, the official beginning of the CDT is now at Crazy Cook, New Mexico northeast of Antelope Wells in the Big Hatchet Mountains.