The Narrows road, East Orchard Mesa, Colorado Palisade Mesa Colorado USA According to oral history interviewee Ann Stokes, whose family homesteaded on East Orchard Mesa in 1904, the original road up to the mesa from the Palisade side was called the Narrows. The road started in Vineland, was a narrow wagon path along the Colorado River, and then went up through a canyon near the current road that comes up over the Orchard Mesa hill (38 Road). yes yes