GC5AK92 Where's the State Line?
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: nodderbug @ | Hide Date: 08/09/2014 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N37° 00.005 W106° 32.454 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
         

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A spice jar behind a tree located several hundred yards north of the "official" sign of the Colorado-New Mexico State Line.  Use Forest Service road 121, which deadends a few miles north of this location.  Do not attempt this area during inclement weather.

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This is on the 37th parallel of latitude.  The 37th was established as the boundary between several states: Utah and Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico, Kansas and Oklahoma. 

Due to various reasons, the boundaries are sometimes adjusted and are abstract or theoretical and not exact.  At the Four Corners National Monument, GCGPZE is at N 36 59.648, a few hundred feet south of the 37th.  The state line monument caches east of here are on the 37th.  Refer to GC1KEJ9, GC1R5CF, GC1R5CZ, GC1R5AW, GC1R5AZ, GC26ZBO and GC1R44A.  Near GC37O1F, northeast of Navajo Lake, the state line dips and is south of the 37th.  This coninues to be the case with GC2WVJX @ U.S. 84, GC5896P @ U.S.285, GC57TBJ @ SR 522 near Sugarite Canyon.  It's unique to note that the monument @ GC27F6 on the Oklahoma-Colorado-New Mexico is exactly on the 37th parallel.

07/18/2018 By alpinemm
Boo hoo!

06/07/2018 By DeFever16
Dnf. Looked around with 5 sets of eyes for 20 minutes.

05/24/2018 By MesquiteM&M
Picking up a few of the caches in the Chama area that I didn't look for last year. Cache is in great shape and the log is crisp and dry. I wonder how much money the ranch owner has invested in the several miles of split 2 rail store bought fencing. Has to run into the tens of thousands of dollars. This was a beautiful drive. We continued on to the end of the road. The sign is not joking when it says no trailer turn around for the last mile. Just enough room to turn the Jeep around in though. TFTH TFTC

10/14/2017 By Utahcolor
DNF, but didn't look too hard. It is impossible to tell where the forest road right of way ends and the aggressively signed private property begins, so we were uncomfortable snooping around. The road, however, is absolutely beautiful, and well worth the drive.

09/05/2017 By nodderbug
All's well at this one. Should last through another snowy winter. ThanX for visiting this area.