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United States : Arizona

16.4 miles (26.4 km) SE of Tuba City, Coconino, AZ, USA
Approx. altitude: 1775 m (5823 ft)
([?] maps: Google MapQuest OpenStreetMap topo aerial ConfluenceNavigator)
Antipode: 36°S 69°E

Accuracy: 2 m (6 ft)
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#2: View North #3: View East #4: View West #5: Ground cover at the confluence point #6: All zeros! #7: Looking down on the point from a height of 120m.  (The fenceline on the left is the boundary between the Hopi and Navajo Reservations.) #8: View North (towards Coal Mine Canyon), from 120m above the point #9: View East (showing more of Coal Mine Canyon), from 120m above the point #10: View South (of Blue Point mesa), from 120m above the point #11: View West, from 120m above the point

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  36°N 111°W (visit #8)  

#1: The confluence point lies in dry, desolate land in the Hopi Reservation.  (This is also a view to the South, towards the Blue Point mesa.)

(visited by Ross Finlayson)

11-Jul-2021 -- I had visited this point once before, in April 2010, but - while driving from Flagstaff, Arizona to Durango, Colorado - decided to revisit it, to get a ‘drone’s-eye’ view of the point. I’m glad that I decided to revisit this point, because this time I got to see the spectacular Coal Mine Canyon - to the northeast of the point - that I had somehow managed to miss during my previous visit.

As before, I reached the point by taking highway 264 South of Tuba City, then turning left onto the dirt road at [35.9898,-111.00073]. I followed this road as it dropped below a small mesa (“Blue Point”). During my last visit, I parked 0.4 miles from the point, and hiked the rest of the way. This time, however, I discovered a turnoff (a doubletrack dirt road) at [36.00172,-110.99216] that took me even closer. I parked (next to an overlook over Coal Mine Canyon) at [36.00193,-110.99800] - 0.17 miles northeast of the point - and hiked the rest of the way. (I was pleased that my hike was so short, because the temperature at the time was 102F (39C)!)

The point looked just the same as it did 11 years ago, except that this time it looked even drier and more desolate.

Here is a remote-controlled aerial video of this confluence point.


 All pictures
#1: The confluence point lies in dry, desolate land in the Hopi Reservation. (This is also a view to the South, towards the Blue Point mesa.)
#2: View North
#3: View East
#4: View West
#5: Ground cover at the confluence point
#6: All zeros!
#7: Looking down on the point from a height of 120m. (The fenceline on the left is the boundary between the Hopi and Navajo Reservations.)
#8: View North (towards Coal Mine Canyon), from 120m above the point
#9: View East (showing more of Coal Mine Canyon), from 120m above the point
#10: View South (of Blue Point mesa), from 120m above the point
#11: View West, from 120m above the point
ALL: All pictures on one page
  Notes
In the Navajo Indian Reservation.