[Mile-marker 34]
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.