19-Jan-2024 -- It was a chilly 23°F and windy when I pulled up to the nearest house to the west, knocked, and waited. No one was home this fine Friday afternoon. I drove back out to the road and parked SW of the point on the Oklahoma side. I gathered my gloves, hat, and GPS and set out across two fences (one barbed wire, the other low electric, neither marked) and through some decently scrubby fallow terrain. I arrived in less than three minutes, zeroing out and taking the requisite photos.
The confluence is about 100 yards north of the state line road. A dry streambed lies just to the north of the point, and on the other side a decrepit windmill. A faint two-track trail cuts through the scrub nearby. I did not see a single person or passing vehicle during my seven minutes away from my rental car. This was my fourth of four SE Kansas confluences in 24 hours. Now back toward Ark City and on southward to Norman, OK for a weekend with old college buddies. All told I spent $148 on the rental car and $39 in gas to cover the 462 miles of confluence hunting between MCI and OKC.