North of Mesquite · from the book and the press
The marker where Nevada, Arizona and Utah come together, just north of Mesquite, and the place that gives the Tri-State area its name.
Just north of Mesquite, a trail leads to the Tri State Monument, the marker where the corners of Nevada, Arizona and Utah come together. It is the point the whole book is named around: the Tri-State area that All Around Mesquite sets out to cover.
When The Progress wrote about the book in December 2023, its photograph showed "local businessman and author Dustin Berg with his wife Jessica on the trail at Tri State Monument just north of Mesquite." The monument is the kind of place the book was written for: a destination a short ride from town that most people drive past without knowing it is there.
The book's Did You Know? fact sheet puts the geography in one line: "Uniquely, you can experience three states and three different time zones within a 30-minute drive from the city." The time zones get their own chapter, "The Confluence of Time Zones: The Tri-State Experience," in the book's second historical part, and the introduction opens with a Timeline of the Tri State Area.
Sources: The Progress, "New Book Focuses on Regional Trails and Their History," December 5, 2023; the book's Did You Know? fact sheet and table of contents (sample pages). Directions and GPS coordinates are not published here; the book gives the general location and the area guide map the surroundings.
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Where Berg found an abandoned rock cabin after driving past the spot dozens of times: the hidden history the book was written to point out.
The City of Mesquite's museum, the research stop behind much of the book's history, and the first name in its acknowledgments.
