Blanding Veterans Memorial

Blanding sits in San Juan County, the most remote corner of Utah — high desert and canyon country far from any city, on land long shared with the Navajo and Ute Mountain Ute. This memorial, dedicated in 2013, honors the veterans of that isolated community across all the wars. It's a long way from Blanding to any battlefield, which is part of what these small-town memorials quietly insist: that distance from the centers of power never exempted a place from the nation's wars, and never will.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum — 0.3 mi
  An Ancestral Puebloan ruin you can climb down into

More markers nearby

• ZCMI Co-Op Building — 0.3 mi
• Settlement of Blanding — 0.4 mi