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- Get ready for an exciting exploration of geography facts about America and some of the most incredible features of the USA. From the vastness of Alaska to the bustling city of New York City, the United States is full of amazing geographic wonders that you might not have known about before.
In this video, I'll be checking out Bright Side Channel's Video: 12 Geography Facts No One Told You About
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And explore some fascinating USA facts, geography facts, and facts about America in general. We'll discover things like did you know that buildings in New York have their own ZIP codes? Or that Alaska is so vast that it could fit Texas, California, and Montana combined?
Here's something that will blow your mind - you can actually walk from the US to Russia! And did you know that there's a piece of Canada in California?
Let's talk about the country's rivers and coastlines. The Mississippi River is the longest river in the country, while the Roe River is the shortest in the world. And America also boasts the longest coastline in the world.
Moving on to the mountains, did you know that the tallest mountain in the world is actually located in the United States? Mount Everest may be the highest peak, but Mount Denali in Alaska is the tallest from base to summit.
Have you ever heard of Point Roberts? It's a small piece of land in Washington State that is actually part of Canada. And have you heard of Four Corners, where four US states meet?
Finally, let's talk about the size of Texas. It's bigger than you can imagine! In fact, it's larger than the entire country of France.
These are just a few of the amazing geography facts about America that you might not have known. Let us know in the comments which one surprised you the most!
So join me on this exciting journey as we uncover some incredible geography facts about America and explore the unique features of this amazing country!
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Welcome to the true weirdness! You have a lot of videos to catch up on!
Yeah could the two states no us states bordering right!
Ha BC has 364,764mi s. ( Come I. Got to give me something not sue how much is inhabitable though. Most of small s hacks will work .
Welcome Rob.
Don't pay attention to the Diane Jennings poster. She just wants to sell you girl scout cookies and to be one of the "cool" kids. She is harmless but she keeps popping up on all the videos for some reason. I try to block her but I have to settle for putting something in front of her on the screen. Like a bottle of coke or something. But you still hear her voice. Sigh. And I am not sure but I think her and "the editor" that sometimes pops up, may be the same person. And that fake Irish accent! Please give me a break! Obviously a very troubled young lady.
My persona favorite geographical oddity is that there's a lake in Yellowstone National Park (Isa Lake I think) that sits directly on the Continental Divide. It has two outlets : one drains eventually into the Missouri, which flows into the Mississippi, which empties into the Gulf of Mexico; the other flows into the Snake, which flows into the Columbia, which empties into the Pacific. So that one lake flows both to the Pacific and to the Atlantic oceans
Wyoming also has the Great Divide Basin where the Continental Divide splits into two lines of mountains. Rainfall in the Basin does not drain to either the Pacific or the Atlantic.
I've been there too!
Yes, that's Isa Lake. I grew up in SW Montana, close enough we had tons of Sunday picnics in Yellowstone
@@JPSE57 The Great Basin (I've never seen the word Divide included in the name before) isn't just in Wyoming. It spans nearly all of Nevada, much of Utah, and portions of California, Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming, and Baja California. It's maybe better thought of as many contiguous basins as the water in different parts of it drain to different places, but none of the waterways throughout the large region make it to either ocean.
@@hkpew Two different Endorheic Basins. The Great Basin is as you describe it, although only a tiny portion of it is in the southwest corner of Wyoming. The Great Divide Basin is further east and is much smaller.
I grew up in the Four Corners area, about two and a half hours from the place where all the states meet. Went there a few times when travelling back to Colorado in the summer. The funky thing is, the stone placard on the ground where they let you stand "in four states" is actually a few hundred yards from the real meeting point. The real one is too close to the highway for people to safely mess around.
That was really dumb of the planners to put the highway THERE. It's in the middle of the frigging desert, they easily could have scooted over by another hundred yards before they started building. They already steal land rights from people...why mess up a national point of interest with a road?
Now you tell me.! LOL. BTW Two Indian nations also meet at that point.
It's more than a few hundred yards. It's off by about 2.5 miles according to the most recent land survey.
@@Gizmo42Rodeo Wow. By satellite image, it doesn't seem THAT far off...
I grew up in Utah, and the family visited that point in the 70's and yea it was a bunch of hippis messing around trying to get their picture took standing on one foot. Thanks for the update, haven't been there in 40 years!
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Legend! 😂
For most my life I lived about an hour's drive from the 4-corners monument, and drove/rode past it multiple times, but never actually stopped there. Another fun fact: the monument is surrounded by 2 reservations, and falls under the jurisdiction of the Navajo reservation (covering the surrounding land in 3 of the 4 states). It was closed to the public for a few years due to the pandemic restrictions put in place by the reservation, but is once more open to tourism. Please visit respectfully 😁
I drove past the turn off last fall, but I didn't have the time to stop.
Great craic as usual!
So, technically a volcano can also be a mountain, and most of them are. The big issue is that Mt. Everest is the highest point of elevation on earth; so it’s physical height from plateau level to peak isn’t as tall as several other mountains, but it’s peak is still higher.
🎉 craicalac!
Along with this discussion, I am going to complicate it even further. Mount Everest is considered the tallest above sea level, yes. BUT in the country called Ecuador, there is a mountain chain that rivals those where Everest is located. You can imagine where Ecuador is located, the Earth's equator goes through it. Relative to the Center Of The Earth, Mount Chimborazo actually sticks out further into space than Mount Everest because of the bulge around the equator.
So many different ways to argue over which is taller. It's all due to the relative or relevant facts. lol :)
Sadly, that Point Roberts place was cut off basically from the US during covid. Thankfully our awesome neighbors to the north made a border exemption for that town during covid. But even with that the town was decimated due to lockdowns and apparently only less than 800 people still live there.
Doesn't Minnesota's Northwest Angle have all the same problems that Port Roberts does?
@@bigscarysteve Apparently their COVID hack was to create an ice road and drive across the frozen lake during the winter.
I’ve lived in Whatcom County my whole life, but have never been to Point Roberts. Most of my trips to Canada were for school field trips or track/cross country competitions. Never driven across myself, only as a passenger.
@@tconlon251 Are you shitting me? An ice road across salt water just north of Seattle? The arctic can barely freeze now
@@bothellkenmore No, that was in response to the Northwest Angle comment
Like Point Roberts, the Northwest Angle of Minnesota can only be accessed by boat or by driving through Canada. (You can drive on the lake when it is frozen.)
But the Canadians are so polite that it is not usually a problem. (except during Covid when they closed the border)
And the Northwest Angle is the only part of the U.S.A. outside of Alaska that is north of the 49th parallel.
I've been to Four Corners many times. It is pretty fun to stand at the point the four states meet so you can honestly say you were in all four at once. It's also on Navajo tribal land and at least the last time I was there around a decade ago they had stalls set up around the four corners where native crafters could sell their wares. I'm not sure I would call it a vacation destination but it's something well worth checking out if you are in or passing through the area.
Love your channel. I am 71 and was born in Colorado and the 4 corners is amazing. I cureently live in the Rusmore state of South Dakota. I lived in Europe for a couple years while i was in the army. I also love your music reactions to 50s 60s 70s music. Thanx
Volcanoes are a type of mountain. All of the peaks in the Olympic Mountains stretching from Washington to California are volcanoes, including Mt. Shasta, Lassen Peak, and Mt. Ranier.
Mts, Lassen, Shasta, Hood, Rainier are all in the Cascade Range. The Olympics are not a part of the Cascade Range, are much older and were formed by faulting and folding related to the movements of tectonic plates.
The Missouri River is arguably the longest river in North America, traversing an amazing variety of landscapes on its journey to the sea. This mighty river flows more than 2,300 miles from Three Forks, Montana, to St. Louis, where it joins the Mississippi River.
Correct. The Missouri River is longer than the Mississippi River by nearly 100 miles.
@@capnmoby13 Yes, but technically the Missouri is a tributary of the Mississippi, as it empties from there into the Gulf.
I've never been to any of the places mentioned in the video, but I once drove to Hell, Michigan just so I could say I've literally been to Hell and back (and I got pictures to prove it!). There's not much there really. A gift shop, mini golf, kayak rentals, a saloon, and a restaurant. I did have a great burger and fries at the restaurant.
Fun fact: It occasionally experiences snowfall. Hell does freeze over.
@Flat-On-His-Face fun fact: when someone tells you to go to hell you could always ask them which hell to go to.
another great show!!
Happy Birthday Jane! Keep Rockin'!
Thanks for the video 👍🏻
Hello Diane. Jim Wilson here. I'm from New York State. We have five states, two lakes, a river, an ocean and another nation on our border, not to mention Niagara Falls as well.
Another great video once again.
Glad you enjoyed it! 🎉
Detroit here. Some interesting Michigan facts:
-After #1 Alaska (6,600mi), Michigan has #2 longest coast (3,324mi), followed by #3 Florida (1,350mi) and #4 California (840mi)
- Michigan has over 15,000 Lakes
- the Great Lakes are actually "inland oceans"
- Lake Superior alone holds enough water to cover all of North America AND South America in water 1 foot deep (30cm) if they were perfectly flat. No joke.
-Detroit to Washington D.C. (515mi) is a shorter drive than Detroit to Copper Harbor mi (605mi) in the upper peninsula
-In Michigan you are never more than 6 miles from a body of water
I grew up in southeastern Utah from there one can see all states due to different geological features: New Mexico has Ship rock, Colorado has the sleeping Ute mountain, and Arizona the carizo mountain. It was a pretty cool backyard to grow up in!
Never been to four corners, but have had the huge pleasure of seeing family photos of that extremely interesting location.
I have considered going but was told there is a fee and a long wait to just stand in one spot and snap a pic, so... still on my list but not at the top of my list. 🙂
@@vandergrad It's really pretty boring. It's just desert landscape in the middle of a Native American reservation (barren and undeveloped). If you incidentally drive by there, it's a cool picture spot, though.
Love your creative discussion topics. Keep 'em coming!
More to come!
My wife and I visited Four Corners last year as we drove from Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado to the Grand Canyon.
My dog went nuts at the end when you started listing off his favorite food items! So at least it worked on him!
FUN FACT, there is a third mountain that could be the "tallest" mountain!! Chimborazo in Ecuador is the point that is point that is farthest from the center of the Earth, because it is so much closer to the equator than Mt. Everest and since the Earth bulges so much that it pushes the peak of Chimborazo to the farthest point. So it all depends on what you mean by tallest!
And yes, I've been to the four corners, but I don't remember it since I was 2 yo
Yes, we've been to 4 corners. It's a good stop going from Mesa Verde national park (I highly recommend) to the Grand Canyon via monument valley.
11:55 Lakes are enclosed by land, can be freshwater, saltwater, or brackish, and may be natural or man-made, but rivers are only bordered by their banks, contain primarily freshwater, and are naturally occurring. These unique qualities demonstrate the most recognizable differences between a lake and a river.
Yes, but what is the difference between a River and a creek? Example given in the video seems more like a creek to me.
But most lakes have outlets and/or inlets, meaning they are not enclosed by land
@@DBurpees1 You can step over a brook, jump over a creek, wade across a stream, and swim across a river. Or whatever people decide the name is.
@@1Cirmag Are they man made or naturally occurring?
@@TR4200 Both. All the ones we call lakes on the Colorado are man made, and have outlets/inlets, specifically the Colorado River.
The Great Lakes are all natural, but also all have outlets and inlets.
I think the definitions floating about that include the word enclosed, are using it not to mean enclosed but "does not directly dump into an ocean/sea" or something along those lines.
There’s actually a monument at “4 corners” and the site of a funny scene in the movie “Vacation”.
Happy Monday Diane! You look beautiful as always! I always look forward to seeing your videos every week! You always have something interesting to comment on or react to. I found this one particularly interesting. Thanks for the share. Have a great rest of your week. All the best to you always! 😎👍
Thank you! You too!
I've been to 4 corners. Aug. 2018. It was a four hr drive (one way) from the Grand Canyon Village. My son and I did a "road trip" after visiting the Grand Canyon South Rim. We made the trip in 1 day. 🚙
Yes... I've been to the four corners! I was stationed at Fort Carson in Colorado, and going to the 4 Corners was just kind of a thing to do while you're stationed there.
Fun facts about Texas: it takes 12-14 hours to drive across the state from east to west (if you don't hit traffic), and about the same time from north to south.
Talking about driving, Katy Freeway in Houston has up to 26(!) lanes. And yes, I have driven there.
Texas is also larger than every European country, except for Russia.
Yes, I've been to four corners and its pretty cool!
The really fun one about the longest coastline is asking which state has the SECOND longest coastline. The answer will surprise you. It's MICHIGAN! Yes, the "coast" all borders freshwater lakes and rivers, but it's longer than any other state's coast save Alaska.
Yup, it's a big place with lots to see. I have 5 states left to visit. Heard our friend Paul will soon be coming to USA! Too bad I'm not anywhere near his itinerary. While Michigan doesn't seem to make these lists often, it is the Grandest State. The Great Lakes and shoreline, inland lakes and rivers, varied terrain, and great people make it a lessor known gem. Hope you're going to enjoy the week ahead
I agree it's beautiful
Great use of emojis!!
@@DianeJenningsyou really should visit Michigan, especially near the straits between the two peninsulas and up to Lake Superior
Similar to Point Roberts, my sister likes the fact that they are locked in by only driving through Canada because it means that no one can kidnap my niece. Only a parent can bring a minor over the border and same to board a plane or a ferry. Basically no way to abduct someone unless you have a private plane or boat.
Ooh 😯
Man, no-one in my family or even anyone I know has ever been abducted and I grew up in a city with a million people in the middle of California. You don't need all that security, people! Live your lives!
@@FlatOnHisFace That’s a pretty bad take. So because you don’t know anyone that was abducted means that it isn’t a crime that happens and that parents with young daughters shouldn’t worry about it? I get amber alerts quite often. It is a rare occurrence with a low likelihood to happen to you or your family but it does happen.
@@wabash9000 The point being made is you can't live in fear of something that might happen, but you can protect yourself to make the likelihood of it happening less.
@@zaklex3165 It's also worth mentioning that the vast majority of kidnappings and amber alerts involve someone who is related to the child, so this is all pointless.
The Roe river empties into the Missouri river from a natural spring near Great Falls, Montana. Also, I have been at the four corners. There is a big slab that then lines are marked.
Goody, another mini class with fun facts! For some reason, I continue to forget which states are at the four corners, I got Utah and Colorado, but missed Arizona and New Mexico, will I ever learn,lol. Chewy was too cute with his head up and looking as if he is listening intently, (guess that was when you were offering up a snack,lol). Thanks Diane, always learning new things,and some old ones I keep forgetting.
I have been to Four Corners. Yes, it's cool. A lot of gift shops nearby, of course.
I live in Colorado. Yes, We've been to Four Corners when we were driving back from California once.
My Sister in law lived in Farmington NM real close to four corners and have been there several times. New to your channel it’s a lot of fun!
Thanks for the great shout out Diane! I think I've been to 4 corners, but it's been awhile. Love the Chewie booting up bit!
Yes, I have stood with my right heel in Utah, my right toes in Arizona, my left heel in Colorado and my left toes in New Mexico.
I lucked out that I was driving by 4 Corners just days after they first opened post-Covid, on the weekend after Independence day in 2021. It was great for a geography nerd like me. I would have liked to have gone to that place in WA state, but with Canada's strict Covid protocols I couldn't. I do hope to go to the Angle Inlet in MN, which is the northernmost poiny in the contiguous USA but is only reachable by car by going thru Canada.
A piece of geography trivia I shared with you years ago but will share again: there is one county named Jennings in the entire USA and it is in Indiana, named for the last territorial and first state governor of Indiana.
I enjoy Four Corners. I have gone there several times during my life while visiting the Southwest. They have a monument there that divides it up and it's a must to arrange yourself so part of you touches all the states at once, a hand in UT, a hand in AZ, a foot in NM, and a foot in CO, or lay spread eagle over the center point, or do what one young gymnast did and do the splits with two legs in two states and balance with a hand in each of the other two states.
That was wild but fun. I guess the volcano in the sea is the tallest
Thanks. Diane
I lived in Albuquerque, NM for 8 years. I’ve been to the Four Corners several times. But it’s quite literally in the middle of nowhere!
Not only have I been to the Four Corners, I'm FROM the Four Corners. Grew up in New Mexico and Pagosa Springs, Colorado...:-)
I've been to Four Corners. It's a big flea market with a marker in the middle that shows you where the four states meet.
Good on ya for the shout out to Miss Jane! A living saint!
I've been to Four Corners once, but I've been to Point Roberts several times. I have a lot of family history there.
Very interesting...I learned a few things myself today. Thanks Diane.
Glad it was helpful!
I live in New Mexico and have visited the four corners a few times. It is really cool and I have been I. 4 places at one time.
I work in a building in Manhattan with its own zip code. I also worked in the MetLife building mentioned.
The US/Canadian border oddity was formed by agreement between the British Empire and the US arbitrarily setting the border by latitude rather than geographic sense. The same latitude situation was true for the South Korean/North Korean boundary set in 1945 at the end of World War II. North Korea has always claimed that South Korea started the Korean War in 1950 by attacking first on the westernmost edge of this boundary. Most historians and military experts discount this as that edge was on a peninsula that could only be supplied by boat and only had land borders with North Korea. Completely impossible to supply once a war started.
Yes , I know it should be measure, not measurement. Every time I see Jane, I think of the first nat geo special I ever saw, back in the early 60's, and the theme music instantly starts playing in my head.
Yep been to 4 corners. There's a marker on the ground where you can put a limb in each state.
Hi Diane! Great video, as always. I have a dear friend who once lived in Cortez, Colorado, which is only a few minutes away from the four corners. I delivered her there almost ten years ago in a week-long adventure involving an overloaded, under-powered moving van with one bad tire and two barely functional wiper blades. This delivery included her two large dogs (Briards), and her four cats (Miscellaneous), and her car (PT Cruiser) towed on a rickety trailer pulled by the overloaded, under-powered moving van. The Four Corners isn't just a novelty for its coincidental state borders, it is rich with Native American and geological history and a truly impressive community of people of many, many races and backgrounds. I stayed there for three days before flying out of the wonderful, tiny Cortez Airport. I took over a thousand pictures of historic sites and the generally mind-blowing scenery. That territory is definitely worth exploring the next time you visit the states.
I've been to 4 corners a few times. It is a giant bronze plaque on the ground in the middle of what is essentially a parking lot.
Knowledge is Power!
🙋🏼♂️ I've been to _Four Corners_ a few times in me teens and twenties. I have lived in Arizona and currently live in New Mexico.
My parents used to take us on trips all the time when I was a kid. 🤸🏼♂️ And as an adult, I had the opportunity to see it again. I managed to talk to people in multiple states without a phone. 🗣️
Chewie thought you were saying what treats you were getting. And he says "yes treats please, any that you mentioned would be fine". HAHAHA
That makes sense
I'm from Colorado. Definitely been to 4 corners a few times.
I’ve been to four corners. It’s cool, has a big metal plate showing where to stand and you can take your picture being in all four states.
Happy Monday! I really love this video. Have a great week.
Thank you! You too!
Four corners is a tourist trap, at least when I went there were various roadside trinkets and things to buy, but it's in the middle of nowhere (it's not near a major city). So I was doing a longer car trip from Denver, down though Royal Gorge, White Sands, Mesa Verde, back up to hit Dinosaur National Monument, etc.
Popular thing is to put each hand/foot in a corner (they have a concrete structure so the ground is all labeled), somewhere I have a picture of my dog that I placed as so, paw in each state.
When I went it wasn't as it was their first weekend post-Covid.
We went there in 1979 and we have a picture with me in Colorado, my mother in Arizona, my father in Utah, and my brother in New Mexico.
9:45 Yeah, I've been to Four Corners. Actually spent the night there while car camping with a group of people. October 4, 1979. Got photos to prove it.
Been to the four corners multiple times. My parents have a picture of me with one limb in each state, in one of their old photo books.
Been to Four Corners at night. There is supposed to be a plate on the ground where you can actually stand in all four states at the same time. It was closed off when I was there, but I hope to see it in the daytime at some point.
There's another place that is part of Minnesota that is surrounded by Canada and has water around it as well. It's called Northern Angle. It's really neat, you should check it out.
Yes It is high desert. And has is strange but beautiful all in its own.
Thanks for reacting to it Diane!
No problem 😊
Some geography weirdness that I"ve always found interesting:
Reno, NV is actually further west than Los Angeles.
The border between Illinois and Missouri was set when Illinois became a state in 1818 and was defined as the middle of the Mississippi River. In the 1880s a series of floods changed the course of the river, but the boundary was set by the 1818 course. As a result, the small village of Kaskaskia, Illinois is actually on the Missouri side of the river. If you call someone there, they use an Illinois area code, but mail to the uses a Missouri zip code.
Similar to the situation with Point Roberts, the Northwest Angle in Minnesota can only be accessed by road from Canada. If you're crossing in, there are several places that have phones that connect directly to US or Canadian customs to report that you're arriving or departing.
But here's my favorite: After the War of 1812, when British-Canadian troops had sailed down Lake Champlain to launch attacks in the US, the US government decided to build a fort just on the US side of the border to prevent it from happening again. While the fort was being built, a survey team came through to more accurately mark the border and discovered it was about half a mile south of where everybody thought it was-meaning that the US was building the fort in Canada.
Alaska is, unlike what you might believe after hearing this, an incredibly beautiful state. It is an outdoorsman's paradise, with hiking, kayaking, fishing, hunting - whatever. And terrain vaires from the rolling hills in Fairbanks, amazing mountains in Anchorage and Denali, to almost permafrost conditions above the Arctic Circle. The people are incredibly friendly, but private. It is one of my favorite states to visit because, in land mass, it's essentially a country its own, with topography to match. In fact, I'm heading off next month to Anchorage for a week to visit friends (I live in the Southeast, so about 20 hours from home to hotel).
Alaska also beneifits from a warm stream, as Britain does with the Gulf Stream (keeping waters navigable, despite high latitude). It's called the Japan Stream, and the Cook Inlet that flows into Anchorage is absolutely beautiful in the winter months. Tons of fog forming off the warm(er) waters, some ice blocks/floes floating out to the Pacific. When I was there last year in January, sun-up was around 9:00 (but really 10:00 because of the mountains) and sunset was around 3:30. Lows -9F, highs around -2F, but actually quite comfortable. (I lived in the upper Midwest and would take an Anchorage winter any time over Iowa). Of course there was Fairbanks, with an average temp of -30F. Good news: that was the coldest it would get. Bad news: that was the warmest it would get.
I have been there to 4 corners. There is a star that marks the spot so you know exactly where to stand :)
4 corners is cool. They have a big metal medallion on the spot that is divided in fourths for each state.
The most southern point of Canada is south of 10 whole states. It's even south of parts of California.
I've always said that Mauna Kea was the *tallest* mountain, but not the highest. Everest is the highest, but not tallest.
Great stuff Diane!!!! Love it!!!! Cheers from Mississippi
Thank you! Cheers!
Like Point Roberts, Check out Minnesota's North West Angle.
I have been to the 4 corners I was born and raised in Colorado and now live in Arizona!
I'm sure you know that Alaska is the largest state and Texas is number two, but if you cut Alaska in half in would then be number one AND number two. Alaska is enormous.
I have been to 4-corners a few times on vacations touring the area or on my way to the West Coast or back.
Yeah I went to Four Corners on a youth choir tour during high school. There's a place on the ground with a plaque or something noting the exact spot.
The longest puddle in the world, what do you know. Nice one, new weirdnesses were learned :)
I was first in four corners when I was four and my dad had a picture taken sitting on the 4 corners, one hand in colorado the other in Utah one foot in Arizona the other in New Mexico. He died when I was 9 so naturally I love the picture. I recreated it with my own tush sitting in all 4 states when I was 19. Unfortunately it's much more touristy these days so not the best scenery as in the early 60s. I was born in Colorado so I lucked out with GREAT scenery!!
I used to live on a state line. I lived in Texarkana Texas and when I backed out of my driveway I was inTexarkana Arkansas.
There's also a town in Minnesota called Northwest Angle that you have to go through Canada to get to if you want to go by land.
Hello from Albuquerque! I've been to Four Corners. Not much there but I can say I've been there 😁
I've been to Four Corners!
If it's in the Southwest, I've probably been there...
I live in Utah and I've been to Four Corners. It's a little out of the way, but there's a big brass marker on the ground that shows you where the four states all touch. You can do push-ups in all four states at once.
My parents went to 4 corners. Have pics of them with their feet in four states at once. It's a tourist attraction at which they have a cement pad and carved in it is the exact location of where the 4 corners meet. It's like a plus sign and a circle around it in the concrete (prob for the photo opps...lol).
Diane, re. point #11, the westernmost island in the Aleutian chain--Attu (at-TWO) is located 468 mi./753km west of 180º W [at around 172º E])
He mispronounced Diomede--DIE-oh-meed--as die-oh-ME-dee in the 'walking to Russia' section.
The Alaska coastline is far longer than the measly 6000 or so miles if you take the circumference of all of the islands, and measure the coastal indentations; with that change, it grows to 33,904 mi (54,563 km).
Mauna Kea (KAY-ah, rather than KEY-uh) is the tallest in the world, but we won't fight about it, since all the other peaks in the running are on land.
During the COVID shutdown, the Canadian border was closed, which nearly killed the town of Pt. Roberts. On the same subject, there are 2 more American "oddballs"--Minnesota's Northwest Angle, which, like Pt. Roberts, was caused by a surveying mistake when the US/Canada border was being set in the 1850s; the 3rd. and final is Hyder (HIDE-er), AK, is in the Panhandle, or Southeast, which is otherwise served by the State Ferry System, but being east of the Coast Mtns., it’s cut off, making a flight, or 441mi./710km. drive through Canada on the Cassiar, Alaska and Klondike Hwys. necessary to get to Skagway--the nearest other town in AK by road.
Four Corners: been there/done that--30+ years ago when on a road trip vacation out West. It's located on the beautiful Navajo Res.; their language is one of the most complex anywhere, and is still spoken by around 170,000 people--the most of any tribal group in the US and Canada.
Billy Bob's Honky Tonk in Ft. Worth, TX has its own zip code too.
I once stood with my left toes in Utah, my left heel in Arizona, my right toes in Colorado, and my right heel in New Mexico. They have an engraved plate you can stand on at the exact intersection of the states.
I've been to 4 corners. It's pretty cool.
I’ve been to Four Corners. It’s a tourist trap, but kinda fun. The actual intersection point is a big brickwork, with the names of the 4 states surrounding it. Around all that are many kiosks where you can buy T-shirts, hats, etc. But bring cash; their Wi-Fi/data signal is pretty poor, so credit card transactions aren’t reliable.
You can mill around, reading signs about the history of the 4 states and the local indigenous peoples. If you actually want a picture of yourself standing/sitting on the intersection point, there’s usually an informal queue. Await patiently, and you and your family will get a minute or two to take pictures of you and your group posing on it. It goes fairly quick.
Yes I've been to the 4-corners in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. It has a big flat monument where you can stand in the center and step from one state to the other. Pritty cool.😎
I recommend Oversimplified: Pig War as it really gets in to that weird border dispute with Canada near Washington.
I have been to Albuquerque, NM, but never to the four corners. They did talk about the four corners a lot in Albuquerque though!