Adam,
I visited this spot about a year ago and granted i am
not terribly interested in finding the 'exact' point
but love knowing i am looking at 3 entities at the
same time.
Access is easier from the mexican side, the people
wont bother you in algodones and are used to tourists.
as anywhere on the border watch out for crime. lock
your car, dont take valuables, etc. the border
attracts desperate people.
cross the border into algodones and it is easy to find
your way. you do have to go over a few dirt roads. the
tram there is interesting since one tower is in us
territory and the other on mexican territory; the
border patrol informed me it was for dept of
agriculture or something like that. If you approach
from the us side you might be disappointed. there's a
lot more to see from algodones.
also since you are going to be there drive 20 miles
south to azbcson. you can either cross back to the us
and drive south through yuma if you are not
comfortable driving in mexico or you can drive south
from algodones. you do have to pay a toll (10 pesos)
and again the best approach is from with in mexico.
park your car and walk up the very thin bridge and
snap a photo or two, that is, if you can stomach the
traffic. people here aren't as used to tourists as in
algodones as all the retired people go there to buy
their prescriptions.
i'll attach 3 photos, first one is azcaba (bc looking
into ca) second is bc looking into az, the third is
azbcson from son.
good luck
vc
--- adamnvillani <
avillani@ueic.com> wrote:
> A while ago somebody (it might have been
> acroorca2002) posted about a
> trip to visit the northernmost point in mexico,
> which I guess under
> our notation would be something like mxn or
> mxus2azcabc. Anyway, I
> was planning a visit out the that area either this
> coming Friday or
> Saturday, and was wondering if anyone had any hints
> on the best ways
> to approach the point. I guess Lowell would have the
> goods on where
> exactly in the Colorado River the tripoint is, since
> he's our
> resident expert on the usmx treaty.
>
> I suppose another historical tripoint I could pick
> up would be the
> historical tripoint between California, New Mexico
> Territory, and
> Mexico before the Gadsden Purchase was made. That
> would be where the
> Gila River flows into the Colorado, on the north
> side of Yuma, right?
> Lowell, do you have any idea whether that tripoint
> would be in the
> river midpoint, the thalweg, one of the banks, or
> what?
>
> I also plan to pick up the 33N115W confluence point,
> but from the
> description of that on www.confluence.org, it sounds
> pretty easy to
> find with a GPS receiver. If I'm feeling lucky I
> might try for
> 32N115W, but that sounds like 5 miles of driving on
> questionable
> roads in Mexico, which I'd feel a lot better about
> if I had (a) 4-
> wheel drive, (b) somebody fluent in Spanish with me,
> and/or (c) a
> lack of memories of bad experiences getting cars
> stuck in the mud in
> the middle of the desert in the US, and that was bad
> enough. Come to
> think of it, one time I was in a caravan of
> Suburbans on a Geology
> field trip in Mexico on a road even the locals
> didn't take any more,
> and one of the vehicles got stuck in a rut. Thank
> God we had a winch.
> Car trouble is no fun.
>
> Adam
>
>
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