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The Kaibab Plateau is a plateau almost entirely in Coconino County, Arizona (but extending slightly north into Kane County, Utah) in the Southwestern United States. [4] The high plain is also known as the Buckskin Mountain , Buckskin Plateau , and Kaibab Mountain .
The Kaibab Plateau is an island surrounded by lower elevations. The plateau, with elevation up to 9,215 feet (2,800 m) is bordered on the south by the Grand Canyon, on the east and the west by tributary canyons of the Colorado River, and on the North by tiers of uplifted cliffs.
State Route 67 (SR 67) is a 43.4 mi (69.8 km) long, north–south state highway in northern Arizona.Also called the Kaibab Plateau – North Rim Parkway, SR 67 is the sole road that links U.S. Route 89A (US 89A) at Jacob Lake to the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.
Buckskin Gulch region at the northeast end of Buckskin Mountain, August 2009. The ridge lies at the north end of the Kaibab Plateau, of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon; the Kanab and Paria [4] plateaus of Arizona, lie southwest, and southeast.
The Arizona Strip was long a cattleman's paradise with large stretches of grassy meadow in the valleys and the high Kaibab Plateau as summer forage. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Grand Canyon Cattle Company, otherwise known as the Bar Z Brand, ran upwards of 100,000 cattle throughout the strip.
The Kaibab squirrel (Sciurus aberti kaibabensis) is a tassel-eared squirrel that lives in the Kaibab Plateau in the Southwest United States, in an area of 20 by 40 miles (32 by 64 km). The squirrel's habitat is confined entirely to the ponderosa pine forests of the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park and the northern section of Kaibab ...
Jacob Lake is a small unincorporated community on the Kaibab Plateau in Coconino County, Arizona, United States, [1] at the junction of U.S. Route 89A and State Route 67.Named after the Mormon explorer Jacob Hamblin, the town is known as the "Gateway to the Grand Canyon" because it is the starting point of Route 67, the only paved road leading to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon some 44 miles ...
Kaibab (from a Native American word meaning "mountain lying down") may refer to the following (all in the Southwestern United States): Kaibab, Arizona, a small community; Kaibab Indian Reservation, Arizona; Kaibab National Forest, Arizona; Kaibab Limestone, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, and California; Kaibab Plateau, Arizona and Utah