I placed the following description and a couple of photos on the
Corner Corner at www.bjbsoftware.com/corners/pointdetail.php3?point=12.

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My visit to this point on October 20, 2002 was a side-trip while on
business in California. I had arranged ahead of time for 4WD
transportation to as close to the tri-point as possible. The
proprietor of MeSquite Outdoors in Mesquite, NV assured me they had
someone who could drive me all the way to the point. At 6:00 AM I met
Duane Linge and his father Russell Linge, who would be my guide, at
Mesquite Outdoors. We headed north on the road toward Shivwitz, UT,
crossed into Arizona and stopped at the Arizona-Utah line, 7.4 miles
due east of the objective.

Mr. Linge decided the best way to cross Beaver Dam Wash, some 3 or 4
miles to the west, would be to head northwest using Bureau of Land
Management roads to a ranch he knew about. Eventually we reached the
ranch set in a beautiful canyon cut by the wash. The road
switch-backed down the east side and back up the west side, putting us
on the right side of the wash but about 10 miles from the tri-state.
Mr. Linge, navigating strictly by eye and lining up with distant
mountains, headed south and southwest until we were about 9 miles due
west of the tri-point. From this point we tried following various
fence lines and roads, ultimately resorting to some cross-country
travel. Eventuallly, we arrived at a point only 0.6 miles SW of the
tri-point, which we could see with field glasses. I would have been
happy to walk the remaining distance but Mr. Linge decided it was a
worthy challenge to drive the entire distance. By the way, the 4WD was
not working in his GMC truck, a fact that would come back to bite us
later on.

After unsuccessfully trying several routes across small washes, we
headed northwest to the intersection of the BLM road with a fence line
running 21 degrees south of east. It appeared that this fence would
run to the "Initial" location shown on the topographic map, southeast
of the tri-point. Unfortunately, we got the truck stuck in a steep dry
wash. A half hour of shovel work freed the truck but soon encountered
another, uncrossable wash, so we turned around and immediately got the
truck stuck in the first wash again. Another half hour of shoveling
and loading traction boulders into the truck bed got us free. After a
little more driving we stopped to scout the trail. The truck bounced
to a stop, whereupon I opened my door, hopped out, and impaled my knee
on a small Joshua tree. Seeing me hobbling around, Mr. Linge asked
what happened and I told him a got pricked by a bush. He said "Well,
just don't get pricked by a Joshua tree because they're poison." Oops.
I have to admit, my knee did swell up a bit and felt like it had been
stung by a bee, but aside from some moderate anxiety at the prospect
of dying in the desert without having visited the tri-point, the
injury was minor.

Finally, and via a course I can not remember, we arrived at a small
road that ran directly to the tri-state monument. Inexplicably, Mr.
Linge parked the truck about a quarter mile shy of the objective and
we walked the remaining distance, finding some nice fossilized turtle
fins along the way.

The tri-state monument is red sandstone marked with the names of the
states. Adjacent to it was a metal box placed by a GPS scavenger hunt
enthusiast. I added my name to his visitor register.

Getting back to Mesquite was relatively easy using roads to the south
and west of the tri-point. Unfortunately I have no idea how to find
these roads again, but they were good roads and would be passable in a
regular car.

The entire outing took about 5 hours and will definitely stand as one
of my more memorable tri-state adventures.