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The Four Corners area is named after the quadripoint at the intersection of approximately 37° north latitude with 109° 03′ west longitude, where the boundaries of the four states meet, and is marked by the Four Corners Monument. It is the only location in the United States where four states meet.
The monument is located on the Colorado Plateau west of U.S. Highway 160, on State Road 597, approximately 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Cortez, Colorado. [1] In addition to the four states, two semi-autonomous American Indian tribal governments have boundaries at the monument, the Navajo Nation and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Reservation, with the Ute Mountain tribal boundaries coinciding with ...
Label adjacent states. 05:37, 14 May 2008: 928 × 588 (85 KB) Braindrain0000 {{Information |Description=Map locating the four corners region. States containing one of the four corners are shown in dark orange. The four corners region is highlighted in red. |Source=self-made |Date=2008-05-14 |Author= [[User:Braindrain0000|Braindrai
The Colorado Plateau is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. This plateau covers an area of 336,700 km 2 (130,000 mi 2 ) within western Colorado , northwestern New Mexico , southern and eastern Utah , northern Arizona , and a tiny fraction ...
Utah covers an area of 84,899 sq mi (219,890 km 2).It is one of the Four Corners states and is bordered by Idaho in the north, Wyoming in the north and east, by Colorado in the east, at a single point by New Mexico to the southeast, by Arizona in the south, and by Nevada in the west.
This is a list of all tripoints in which the boundaries of three (and only three) U.S. states converge at a single geographic point. Of the 60 such points, 36 are on dry land and 24 are in water. [1]
I've visited all 50 states and most major US tourist attractions — some of which I found overrated.. I wouldn't plan trips around the Four Corners Monument or Mount Rushmore. I'd also recommend ...
State Road 597 (NM 597) is a 0.447-mile-long (719 m) state highway located entirely on the Navajo Nation in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. The highway serves to link U.S. Route 160 (US 160) to the Four Corners Monument. The highway is the second shortest highway in New Mexico; the shortest is NM 446 at 0.250 miles (402 m).