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Ok, Is this a Benchmark?


CCrew

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Even though Benchmarks can be objects like towers and spires and tablets;

This does not appear to be the Benchmark that the description is alluding to for the given link that you provided. In the link the type of Benchmmark is listed as a survey disk and it is bronze. The description says it is set in a drill hole, which will means it will most likely be glued into the cement. In fact, the description appears to indicate that it is in the median which divides the lanes of the highway on the Rainbow Arch Bridge. It will most likely be stamped "Rainbow" because that is listed as the designation. It is four feet from a manhole cover, so look for it to be set flush with the ground. There are alot of neat benchmarks in the area, including a flagpole on top of a 22 story building : Flagpole , a water tank down the street recovered as recently as 1997 : Water Tank and one that is near a whirlpool in the gorge that is submerged sometimes ( please be careful ) : Whirlpool which is only a stamped bolt. A VERY COOL AREA for hunting BMs and not a single one logged, yet!

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Thanks Tacguy.

 

Must have missed it by feet then. Can't get in the median as a pedestrian, at least not without getting locked up by US or Canadian Customs :-(. You'd have to jump a rail to get there.

 

For those that wonder, this plaque is affixed to the base of the railing dead center of the Rainbow Bridge crossing the pedestrian walkway between US and Canada at Niagara Falls.

 

Sometimes a majority only means that all the fools are on the same side

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