Tri State Survey Monument

This hilltop is where three states meet, and getting the spot right took two tries. In the summer of 1871 the surveyor Daniel Major and eleven men ran the Idaho-Utah line north from Evanston with chains, a sextant, and a chronometer, fixing an initial point by the stars and burying a white earthen bottle under a pine post to mark it. Three years later a second surveyor, running Wyoming's line, found Major's point about seven-tenths of a mile too far east and set the corner where it stands today.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Bear Lake — 14 mi
  The Caribbean of the Rockies — a turquoise lake straddling the Utah-Idaho border
• Bear Lake Raspberry Shakes — 19 mi
  Legendary raspberry milkshakes from locally grown berries

More markers nearby

• The First Oregon Trail — 18 mi
• Fur Traders Rendezvous — 19 mi
• Randolph Veterans Memorial — 24 mi
• John C. Gray-Randolph Tabernacle — 24 mi