23-Apr-2025 -- While returning to California from a mountain biking vacation in Utah and southwestern Colorado, I decided to visit this ‘forgotten’ Degree Confluence Point, located in the Navajo reservation in northwestern New Mexico.

About a year ago I recorded an ‘incomplete’ visit to this point, as it was getting late in the day, and I couldn’t find a good way to get close to the point, without bothering the several private residences that were scattered throughout this area. Since then, I reviewed satellite imagery of this area, and figured that I could avoid the private residences by starting from highway 134 (aka. Indian Service Route 32), about 0.8 miles due West of the point.

I started my hike at [35.99977,-109.01480], at a utility access gate that avoided crossing a barbed-wire fence. I then hiked eastward, across a series of sagebrush-covered plains, interspersed with small pine-covered ridges. The point lies in one of the sagebrush-covered plains, as it begins sloping up towards a pine-covered ridge to the North.

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