we did close the gates, Mr. and Mrs. Jordan!

I made some phone calls when it became clear that the WY-SD-NE tri-point is on private property (or at least getting there would be on private property). I found the owners, the Jordans, and I told them of my intentions. Dorothy was to meet me at the Cowboy Bar in Lusk ("just south of the light," she said on the phone) to tell me how to get there, but she was nowhere to be found when we arrived in Lusk at about 3:00pm. We left them a message on their phone and decided to trust our maps and instincts.

After about 25 miles of driving from Lusk, we found ourselves on the road to the tri-point, which was actually a driveway to the (vacant) ranch house just southwest of the tri-point. Dorothy told me not to go out there if it had been raining - fortunately there'd been no rain in a few days, but we found some soupy sloppy tracks on our way up to the tri-point. In fact, my Forester had never been so dirty - I felt like I was in a Subaru commercial, running my windshield wipers to push the mud off the window.

After some poking around on farm roads and jeep tracks, we found the point, a delightful fenced monument with a sign-in log and a binder with a brief history of the site and of the construction and reclamation of the monument about 20 years ago...