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United States : Wyoming

5.8 miles (9.4 km) WSW of McKinnon, Sweetwater, WY, USA
Approx. altitude: 2276 m (7467 ft)
([?] maps: Google MapQuest OpenStreetMap topo aerial ConfluenceNavigator)
Antipode: 41°S 70°E

Accuracy: 2 m (6 ft)
Quality: good

Click on any of the images for the full-sized picture.

#2: View North #3: View East #4: View West (towards a rural dirt road, just 200 feet away) #5: Ground cover at the confluence point #6: All zeros!

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  41°N 110°W (visit #3)  

#1: The confluence point lies in sagebrush, just 200 feet East of a rural dirt road.  (This is also a view to the South, towards Utah, just 0,2 miles away.)

(visited by Ross Finlayson)

20-Jun-2022 -- After a brief vacation in Salt Lake City (which included successfully reaching [41,-112] on the shore of the Great Salt Lake), I spent today visiting two remote but accessible Degree Confluence Points to the east. As I drove east on I-80 from Salt Lake City towards Wyoming, I experienced a freak Summer storm, with snow flurries and temperatures in the 30s F. The weather was starting to clear as I exited I-80 at Fort Bridger, Wyoming, and drove south - through the town of Mountain View - along Wyoming highway 414, towards this point. But then, as I turned onto the rural dirt road that passes next to the point, bad weather returned, and I had to wait in my car until a hailstorm passed. Eventually I was able to leave my car and hike to the point, which lies in sagebrush, just 200 feet East of the road. This is a typical ‘western US sagebrush’ Degree Confluence Point.

This was the first recorded visit to this point since September 2000. Shawn Fleming registered an incomplete visit in 2014; at that time, he noted a “No Trespassing” sign beside the dirt road. I didn’t see any such sign; the road appears to be public. (Just 0.2 miles south of the point, the road briefly doglegs along the Wyoming-Utah state line, before continuing into Utah.)


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#1: The confluence point lies in sagebrush, just 200 feet East of a rural dirt road. (This is also a view to the South, towards Utah, just 0,2 miles away.)
#2: View North
#3: View East
#4: View West (towards a rural dirt road, just 200 feet away)
#5: Ground cover at the confluence point
#6: All zeros!
ALL: All pictures on one page