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16-mile journey (by dirt road) to the site's headquarters at the Square Tower ruin. The best
preserved and most accessible of these six ancient villages, Square Tower includes the im-
posing Hovenweep Castle and a ranger station that provides information on tours of the
other ruins.
10. Four Corners Monument
From Hovenweep, follow Rtes. 262, 41, and 160 to the Four Corners Monument, the place
where Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico meet, and the only such four-point bor-
derintheUnitedStates.Goahead—climbontotheconcretemarkerandstandinfourstates
at once. Then look out across the unbroken desert and up at the borderless blue sky. You'll
come away with the sense that nature disdains our attempts to draw lines all over its cre-
ations and to parcel tidy territories out of such sprawling majesty.