September 20, 2015

Let's visit America's tri-points! You know, trifinia!

There are 65 of them. Here's a map.
It has been more than six years since Brian bagged a new tri-point. “It’s a tough sell [to family] to suggest vacationing for the purpose of tri-pointing,” he said.

But Roger Simpson, 72, of Oklahoma City has had some success getting his wife and daughter to go along. The family’s Web site documents their travels to Oklahoma’s five tri-point monuments, all easily accessible by car.... “People would ask me, ‘Why would you go to such a desolate place. . . . There is nothing there.’... You are right, there is nothing there. That’s why I want to go there.”

18 comments:

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

They make fun of Raj's penchant for theme parties on The Big Bang Theory, implying that it makes him effeminate.

MathMom said...

We went out of our way to stand at the Four Corners intersection this summer. Why not?

rhhardin said...

Go in your Tri-pacer.

clint said...

Is there only the one quad-point?

Roger Zimmerman said...

Good trivia question - which three states do not have any tri-points?

JAORE said...

Roger Z. Two are obvious, or stumpers if the concept doesn't click. The third is one of the prettiest places I ever visited by motorcycle.

Left Bank of the Charles said...

Alaska has a tri-point with Yukon and British Columbia. Maine has one with Quebec and New Brunswick.

JAORE said...

Why Left Bank, you old "One Worlder, you....

Ron said...

There need to buoys on the Aqua Tri Points in the Great Lakes.

Phil 314 said...

Equally exciting:

The geographic centers of every state

Likely few monuments to catch your attention.

Phil 314 said...

Good luck getting to the geographic center of AZ.

Anonymous said...

If one wants to go to otherwise completely uninteresting places why not just blindfold yourself and throw darts at a map. Wherever the dart lands, that's your next fabulous $10,000 holiday.

Bob Boyd said...

You've never been tri-pointing until you've been tri-pointing with Suzy Favor Hamilton.

You know, triphilia!

LordSomber said...

U.S. exclaves seem like they would be more interesting to visit, and would have just as interesting of a history.
Minnesota's Northwest Angle, the Kentucky Bend, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Exclaves_in_the_United_States

Unknown said...
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Unknown said...

Go in your Tri-pacer.

mikee said...

Tripoints are travel goals because there is nothing there?

I keep my "nothing there" all over the world, not limited by lines on maps, and thus can choose to visit "nothing there" on a beach in Hawaii or a ski slope in Colorado, rather than the ass-end of Oklahoma.

Still, I admire a person with a defined goal and a mission to complete it, no matter how whacky.

Nichevo said...

Mikee,

Hitler called, he wants his old job back.

;-)