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Apparently, it has come to light that the Four Corners Marker is located 2.5 miles from the true point. The actual point is east of the current site where tourists have gone for a very long time, paid there fee to sit and or stand in four states at once.
Sorry, you'll have to mosey down the road [160] a bit to actually do that, I'm afraid. But at least it won't cost you the $6 entrance fee.
Since the marker is on Navajo land, don't count on it being moved any time soon and certainly not by any US agency.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/20/national/a124751D82.DTL
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Opps! Four Corners is in wrong place!
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I paid my $6, and I'm keeping the pictures, so don't let my relatives know that we missed the spot.
Hi Deb - I heard that on the news this morning. And to think - it only took them 141 years to figure it's been wrong!
I'm with emalloy on this one.
One of my favorite "tourist traps" of all!
The pics of the kids on horseback are some of the best of the vacation pictures. LOVE 4Corners - even if it is misplaced.
A local TV station investigative report indicated that this has been known for a long time, the actually location is closer to a 1000 feet off and the current boundaries are legally accepted for land boundary purposes so therefore that is the four corners. Who knows ??
How funny - my dd was just there - they drove from Orange County to NM for a week long ministry project on a reservation and all took many pictures at this "four corners"
I can appreciate the folks who enjoyed the "Four Corners". If you stop to think about it. To think about it though, the Four Corners Monument is controlled by the Navajo tribe. Three sides where the four States come together is on Navajo tribal lands. The fourth, in Colorado, is on Ute Mountain Ute tribal lands. Methinks that folks have been wandering around the "point" thinking they were in four states when in reality they were either in just one state or two at the most. Sounds like some hoodwinking was going on back when the monument was built.
The first surveys were done in the late 1800's so it's pretty amazing that surveyors of that day were as accurate as they were, given the crude equipment of the era. The first monument didn't come along till 1912 so I really doubt there was any hoodwinking done. Just better technology today to pinpoint the exact location.
Utahtea
So why are they cutting the corners now?
As a resident of the American Southwest, I give this whole episode a great big "so what"! If you have ever been there, you can witness that "Four Corners" is miles and miles of scenic desolation and neglect by The Great White Father and his cronies in Washington.