18-Sep-2026 -- While driving from Wytheville, Virginia to Asheville, North Carolina, I made a short detour to visit this point. After driving through rustic countryside, dotted with farm houses (and a remarkable number of churches), I turned onto Fox Mountain Road (part gravel; part paved), and parked at a turnout at [36.00024,-81.00859], 0.48 miles West of the point. I then walked to the nearby point [36.00020,-81.00777], where I had noticed - on satellite imagery - a narrow red dirt road that passed just South of the point. I walked along this dirt road until its closest approach: 330 feet (almost exactly 100 meters!) South of the point, which I could see lay down a steep, densely-forested hillside.

I was reminded once again that late Summer is not the ideal time to be visiting forested Degree Confluence Points in the eastern U.S., because the steep hillside was filled with lush vegetation, including lots of thorny vines. I could tell immediately that it was going to be difficult to get close to the point; I was going to have to settle for a barely successful visit that got only barely within 100m. (The previous visitors to this point came in Spring or Autumn, when the trees were bare, and it was apparently much easier to negotiate the steep hillside.) After reconfiguring my GPS receiver to show distances in metric, I gingerly poked my way into the vegetation, until I got to 96m (+/- GPS error of 2m) from the point. That was enough for me. I took my photos from the side of the dirt road, 100m South of the point.

Fortunately, however, I was able to launch my drone from the dirt road, and fly directly over the point. Here is a remote-controlled aerial video of this confluence point.