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Kanab Plateau

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Another paved route, Road 22, crosses Kanab Plateau southeasterly towards Jacob Lake. It crosses diagonally across the plateau, northeast of the center; Jacob Canyon is southwest, and Wildcat Canyon is northeast. The paved route is 23-mi long, terminating with an 8-mi section of unimproved canyon
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parallels the plateau's northwest, (about 10-mi). The unimproved route of Antelope Valley Road exits southwest from Arizona 389 to Antelope Valley's east side at the perimeter of Kanab Plateau's west and southwest. Near the southwest end of the plateau, Road 1023 (22-mi from Arizona 389), exits
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The Kanab Plateau is about 45-mi long, somewhat arc-shaped, as it surrounds Snake Gulch, a northeast tributary to Kanab Creek. The plateau is aligned southwest to northeast, with the same alignment of the small
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to the east, crosses the northeast Kaibab Plateau. It climbs up Cooper Ridge to the LeFevre Overlook, and from the overlook, the distance across the northeast plateau section to Fredonia, is about 8-mi.
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The highpoint of the plateau is in the northeast, Cedar Knoll, 5,706 feet (1,739 m)). Cedar Knoll is 11-mi from Fredonia on paved Road 22.
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Kanab Creek is a due-south flowing creek, and crosses just southeast of the center of the Kanab Plateau. The creek is also the border of
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Benchmark Maps. Arizona Road & Recreation Atlas, Benchmark Maps, 2nd Ed., c. 1998, 112 pages, pp. 28–29, 62–63.
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routes west of Jacob Lake. Cedar Knoll-(plateau highpoint), is at the 11-mi point on the route.
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Willow Spring, in Snake Gulch (lat-long.com), plateau center-(southeast), coordinates
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c. 1983, 23rd printing, Mountain Press Publishing Co. 322 pages. pp. 229–232 (
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southeasterly to meet the trailhead of Hack Canyon, about 5-mi from
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to the east; Coconino County is also south on the border of the
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Arizona Road & Recreation Atlas, c. 1998, pp. 28–29, 62–63.
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in Arizona, United States. The plateau is adjacent west of the
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is a 45-mile (72 km) long plateau located at the north of the
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The main access to the north of the Kanab Plateau is from
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Plateau
Kanab Plateau (aerial photo)
Kanab Plateau is located in Arizona
36°42′35″N 112°31′45″W / 36.70972°N 112.52917°W / 36.70972; -112.52917
Fredonia
Coconino
Colorado Plateau
Moenkopi Formation
Kaibab Limestone
Grand Canyon
Kaibab Plateau
North Rim
Kanab Creek
Kanab Creek Wilderness
Mohave County
Coconino County
Colorado River
Antelope Valley
Fredonia
U.S. Route 89A
Jacob Lake
Kaibab Plateau
Arizona State Route 389
Kanab Creek

Snake Gulch
Kanab Creek
Willow Spring, in Snake Gulch (lat-long.com), plateau center-(southeast), coordinates
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