[Mile-marker 38]
From the intersection 1½ miles east of the Glade Park Store and Post
Office, let us turn southeast on the recently improved and gravelled
Little Park Road around the head of No Thoroughfare Canyon, which was
added to the Monument in 1978 (fig. 3). From the intersection it is
about 14 miles to Grand Junction by this route. In half a mile we reach
the new boundary of the Monument at a minor drainage divide, and as we
start down a steep hill beyond we may park on the right and look
southeastward across No Thoroughfare Canyon along the Glade Park fault
(fig. 58) which has produced the fishtail shape of the head of the
canyon, as shown in figures 8 and 59. A different view of the fault and
canyon head is shown by the stereoscopic pair of aerial photographs in
figure 59.
The Little Park Road closely follows the new Monument boundary around
the south end of No Thoroughfare Canyon, either on the Kayenta Formation
or Entrada Sandstone, and affords good views into the canyon from
several places. East of the southeast arm of the canyon, the road leaves
the boundary and goes northeastward about 4 miles to the end of the
improved part of the road, but the unimproved part is good, and the
lower 5 miles is paved. On my geologic maps[41] of the area, I called
this road by its older name—the Jacobs Ladder Road.