Three fourths of a mile beyond the checking station, South Camp Road
turns left and joins South Broadway 2½ miles to the northwest. This
provides a fine shortcut for persons desirous of travelling back
northwestward through The Redlands to regain the West Entrance of the
Monument. The intersection of South Camp Road and South Broadway, a key
point on the trip “From Grand Junction through The Redlands to the West
Entrance of the Monument,” is noted on page 89.
But let us continue our 3-mile return trip to Grand Junction, in order
to point out several things of interest along Monument Road in the lower
part of No Thoroughfare Canyon. As the canyon narrows just beyond the
road intersection, we see on both sides colorful badlands of the
Morrison Formation capped by the rusty looking basal sandstones of the
Burro Canyon Formation. Behind the building on the right just before the
road curves to the left is an artesian well 575 feet deep that taps both
the Entrada Sandstone and a sandstone lens in the Morrison
Formation[40].