CCC Camp F-32, Co.-479

Before the guard towers, this was a place that built things. The Civilian Conservation Corps was Franklin Roosevelt's answer to the Depression — put idle young men to work on the land for a dollar a day, most of it mailed home to their families. Company 479 lived here at Camp F-32, on the edge of Salina, and fanned out across Sevier country planting, fencing, fighting fires, and shoring up eroded ground. When the nation went to war the Corps was disbanded and the men were drafted, and the camp they left behind was handed a darker second life.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mayfield — 13 mi
  Gateway to Twelve Mile Canyon and the Skyline Drive high country
• Gunnison — 14 mi
  Sanpete's southern hub, home to Utah's oldest operating theater
• Sterling — 18 mi
  A highway hamlet and the doorway to Palisade State Park
• Palisade State Park — 20 mi
  A pioneer-built lake turned central Utah's favorite state park

More markers nearby

• CCC & POW Camp Museum — steps away
• Redmond Pioneers — 4.1 mi
• Gunnison Pioneers — 14 mi
• Gunnison Valley Veterans Memorial — 14 mi