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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 topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level. [2] [3] The first table below ranks the 20 highest major summits of Arizona by elevation. The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings.
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.
First, it defined the landform as a ridge, rather than a summit. Second, it provided a description (with associated coordinates) that ran from the Rock Canyon [10] immediately north of the border of the Kaibab National Forest northeasterly to western part of the Kaibab Gulch (which is also known as the Buckskin Gulch). This new description and ...
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
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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.
The summit of this prominence has an elevation of 6,729 ft (2,051 m) and lies about 1 mi (1.6 km) southeast of the Grand Scenic Divide, and 1 mi (1.6 km) west of Havasupai Point. This summit lies almost level with the surface of the adjacent tableland of the South Rim, the forested Kaibab Plateau. [4] East aspect of Fossil Mountain in 1901