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Plateau Point is a 3,789 ft cliff-elevation point in the Grand Canyon, Coconino County of northern Arizona, United States.It is about 3.0 miles north-northeast of Grand Canyon Village, and about 2.0 miles north of Grandeur and Yavapai Points, and below the South Rim.
Plateau Point. The trail begins at Indian Garden, 4.5 miles (7.2 km) from the rim on the Bright Angel Trail. The trail heads northeast from the day-use area at Indian Garden and follows about 0.75 miles (1.2 km) of the Tonto Trail before it splits from the Tonto, turning north towards Plateau Point. 0.75 miles (1.2 km) from the junction the ...
[4] [3] The second table below ranks the 20 most prominent summits of Arizona. The topographic isolation (or radius of dominance) of a summit measures how far the summit lies from its nearest point of equal elevation. [5] The third table below ranks the 20 most isolated major summits of Arizona.
Arizona is also one of the Four Corners states and is diagonally adjacent to Colorado. Arizona has a total area of 113,998 square miles (295,253 km 2), making it the sixth largest U.S. state. [1] Of this area, just 0.3% consists of water, which makes Arizona the state with the second lowest percentage of water area (New Mexico is the lowest at ...
The following is a list of the mountains and hills of Arizona, ordered by height.. Entries in bold indicate the peak is the highest point in its respective county.. Entries with a † indicate the peak has a low topographic prominence and may be considered a subpeak to a higher nearby summit.
The Kaibab Plateau High Point, 9,213 ft (2,808 m), [8] has a dry-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dsb), bordering on a dry-summer subalpine climate (Köppen Dsc). Most of the plateau is within the 6b USDA Hardiness Zone (-5°F to 0°F), with the highest elevations in the 6a zone (-10°F to -5°F). [ 9 ]
A view of the plateau can be seen from the top of Kendrick Peak, at 10,418 feet (3,175 m) above sea level, located northwest of Flagstaff. The Coconino Plateau is home to the Kendrick Mountain Wilderness area. The plateau has many hiking trails, including the Beale Road Historic Trail and Bull Basin and Pumpkin Trails.
Powell Plateau, named for geologist and explorer John Wesley Powell, is a 7,661-foot-elevation plateau-summit located in western Grand Canyon, about 13 mi northwest of Grand Canyon Village in Coconino County of northern Arizona, USA. Being a large plateau. (~300 acres, 0.47 mi 2), the plateau causes a large west-northeast-north excursion of the ...