It derives its name from the adjacent village of Estcourt, Quebec, which is part of the larger municipality of Pohénégamook.

The Estcourt Station–Pohénégamook Border Crossing is staffed during the work week, usually for processing logging trucks that access Maine's North Woods to haul timber to Quebec saw mills.

Anyone wishing to travel between Pohénégamook and Estcourt Station legally after hours would have to travel on hundreds of miles of private logging roads through the North Maine Woods that are difficult to navigate during spring and summer rains, and almost inaccessible because of snow during the winter;[2] there are no towns or paved roads in the North Maine Woods.

Canadian National Railway's transcontinental main line between Halifax and Montreal passes immediately north of Rue de la Frontière.

U.S. agents said Jalbert had driven past a closed U.S. Customs Service post and not declared he was entering the United States.

[4] In March 2003, Jalbert pled guilty in a US federal court to a charge that he crossed the US–Canadian border illegally; his sentence was a plea deal that was 35 days' time already served in jail, two years of supervised release and no fines.

[5] The US Secretary of State at the time, Colin Powell, called the incident "unfortunate" during a visit to Canada.