Hogback Road, Grand Mesa, Colorado Mesa Colorado USA According to Craig Aupperle, the Hogback Road followed Rapid Creek from Palisade and went over a hogback, stopping south of the town of Mesa, where it met with the Sunnyside Road. Anna (Barker) Foster of Mesa confirms that the hogback of Hogback Road was near Chalk Mountain and that the road was used to travel to and from Palisade. According to Silmon Smith, who accompanied his father and other Grand Junction city council members to the Grand Mesa in search of a town drinking water source in the late Nineteenth century, “the horses balked up there. If you’ve ever been up over the old Hogback Road you’d know it’s steep.” yes yes