A VERY PLEASANT 11-mile drive through Glade Park may be made from the intersection where Rim Rock Drive crosses the northwest arm of Ute Canyon (p. 108) to the intersection with the same drive on the rim of Columbus Canyon a quarter of a mile southwest of Cold Shivers Point (p. 120). The name Glade Park refers not only to the Store and Post Office mentioned earlier, but also to a nearly flat farming and ranching area south of the Monument—an area entirely different from the Monument or The Redlands. Most of the cultivated part of Glade Park is underlain by nearly flat lying Entrada Sandstone which was weathered to a sandy soil, but a few areas are underlain by the Morrison Formation. This drive should appeal particularly to people spending from a few days to a week or more in the campground. For the more adventuresome, other interesting roads join Glade Park from several directions, as noted below.

After leaving Rim Rock Drive at Ute Canyon, on a good gravelled road, we traverse attractive, hilly, wooded country generally southward for about a mile and climb some 300 feet to a flat area covered mainly by sagebrush and grass. About 3 miles south of the intersection, we see on the left the leached white outcrops of the Entrada Sandstone shown in figure 19.

Another 2 miles takes us to the Glade Park Store and Post Office at a four-way intersection.

An improved, gravelled road leads westward through pleasant country some 20 miles to the Utah State line, beyond which an unimproved road leads either to the Colorado or the Dolores Rivers. Future planning calls for improving the Utah stretch of this road and for building a bridge across either the Colorado or Dolores Rivers to connect with scenic Utah Highway 128. If and when completed, this would afford a very scenic shortcut from Moab, Utah, to Grand Junction via the Little Park Road (to be described).

South from the four-way intersection an improved gravelled road takes us through wooded country, past lakes and campgrounds, to the summit of Piñon Mesa, as noted earlier.

Also, from the intersection a paved county road known as DS (south) Road leads eastward then northeastward through farming and ranching country 6 miles to the intersection with Rim Rock Drive near Cold Shivers Point. Three-fourths of a mile east of the Glade Park Store and Post Office the road crosses the Glade Park fault (fig. 8) along which the Morrison and Summerville Formations on the right have dropped down with respect to the Entrada Sandstone on the left. Here, the Entrada also has been leached to white.

At 1-1/2 miles east of the Glade Park Store and Post Office is the intersection with the improved gravelled Little Park Road, which will be described later. At 2-3/4 miles beyond this intersection, the DS Road leaves the Entrada Sandstone and is on a wooded stretch of the Kayenta Formation the remaining 2 miles to Rim Rock Drive. The last one-tenth of a mile is crooked and steep, so please slow down before reaching the stop sign at the intersection. Some years ago the brakes on a pickup truck failed as the driver approached the stop sign, but he was lucky enough to jump out at the top of the cliff just before the truck plunged to the bottom of Columbus Canyon.