CO-NM Mile 8.5 Wedding Cake Ranch

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CO-NM Mile 9 at Wedding Cake Ranch looking west
CO-NM Mile 8.5 at Wedding Cake Ranch looking west. More or less on Ehud Darling’s line.

We walked for a couple of miles east and west at the latitude on which the border sits without finding a surveyor’s monument. The border lacked a fence, as well. Wedding Cake Ranch, which lent its name to the USGS quadrangle that provided navigation, is named for a circular butte with a conical top.

CO-NM Mile 8 Wedding Cake Ranch sign. Wedding Cake Butte in background on left

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