{"id":2521,"date":"2009-10-18T17:11:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T22:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2021-12-04T06:10:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T11:10:48","slug":"colorados-remaining-corners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/colorados-remaining-corners\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado’s Remaining Corners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The United States’ Four Corners phenomenon<\/a> in the desert southwest receives an inordinate amount of attention on Twelve Mile Circle. I don’t know exactly why. Perhaps it’s because it was one of the first places I ever visited simply because of its geo-weirdness. In fact, the fascination runs so deep that it extends to the other<\/i> corners of those four kindred states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Cathedral<\/a>
Stereotypical Colorado <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’ll focus on Colorado (map<\/a>) if for no other reason than this might be the easiest of the bunch. New Mexico and Arizona share a border with Mexico, making it a bit difficult to touch those corners with active Border Patrols in progress. Utah has a notch that gives it a couple of “extra” corners. Let’s try Colorado instead, not out of favoritism but because of ease. We’ll see if it’s possible to visit its three remaining corners as a theoretical construct. I recognize that Colorado isn’t really a rectangle<\/a> but I’m choosing to ignore that for today’s exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Northwest Corner<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I start my virtual tour at the northwest corner where Colorado, Utah and Wyoming all join, the CO-UT-WY tripoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n