Jan 9th, 2013 at 11:00AM: Of course I knew that Four Corners – the spot where Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Arizona meet – would be a tourist trap. But on a recent road trip from Durango to Monument Valley, Utah, I passed just five miles away from this geographically auspicious place and found that I couldn't resist the temptation to stop and see the only spot in America where four states meet.
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Four Corners: A Delightfully Confusing Tourist Trap
Jan 9th, 2013 at 11:00AM: Of course I knew that Four Corners – the spot where Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Arizona meet – would be a tourist trap. But on a recent road trip from Durango to Monument Valley, Utah, I passed just five miles away from this geographically auspicious place and found that I couldn't resist the temptation to stop and see the only spot in America where four states meet.
The Navajo ...An Unforgettable Backcountry Tour Of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park
Jan 9th, 2013 at 9:00AM: I'd seen this quintessentially Western landscape many times before in Marlboro ads, Geico commercials, Roadrunner cartoons, and in dozens of movies. But until I started to plan a trip to the Four Corners region, I had no idea that the famous, starkly beautiful dreamscape of red sandstone buttes and mesas is called the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.
The 30,000-acre park sits on the ...A Grand Tour of the American West
Sep 14th, 2011 at 10:00AM:
I could see the end of my road trip, on the other side of the deserts of the American Southwest, the sun-parched stretch of near nothingness that conceals some of the country's greatest natural wonders. So after leaving Spaceport America in New Mexico, I prepared for a ironman push to the West Coast, my ultimate destination Los Angeles. Along the way, I'd stop at the Four Corners and the ...Gadling Take FIVE: Week of April 18-- April 24
Apr 25th, 2009 at 9:30AM: When I read through Gadling posts each week, there's this potpourri of options. Jon Bowermaster has traded Antarctica for the Maldives, Tynan has been roughing it on a cruise ship and Mike has the scoop on the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand. This week let's hone in on places one might not think of to head to for a good time.
This week ,Brenda finished up her series Cuba Libre series that ...Think you've touched all four states at the Four Corners? Think again.
Apr 22nd, 2009 at 1:30PM: I hate to break the news to you. Remember that time when you diligently placed a hand or foot in each of the four states at the Four Corners? You missed two or three states. Yes, the landmark that celebrates the intersection of Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico is mislabeled. The real Four Corners is 2.5 miles away. Big 'oops,' wouldn't you say? Apparently, when the location was surveyed by ...Two guys, two thumbs, one week and no money. Hitchhiking across the U.S.
Apr 16th, 2009 at 5:30PM: There's a line in the "The Hitchhiking Movie" that made me laugh. Ryan Jeanes, one of the two guys who decided one fine day to hitchhike across the U.S. from New York City to Berkeley, California in one week to test out the kindness of strangers says, after one car dropped them off at what looks like the middle of nowhere, "Three miles further and only 3,000 miles to go."
There are the rides one ...Tony Hillerman's Four Corners region of the U.S. and an encounter
Oct 28th, 2008 at 10:45PM: "An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place." --Tony Hillerman
Yesterday, when I read that Tony Hillerman died, I flashed back to one afternoon when I went as a guest to a writer's group meeting at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. As I introduced myself, was I surprised when I shook one man's hand, and his warm ...
