Chosin Reservoir Campaign Monument (Korea)

In late November 1950, some thirty thousand UN troops were surrounded by roughly four times their number of Chinese soldiers in the frozen mountains around Korea's Chosin Reservoir. Over seventeen days at temperatures far below zero, they fought their way out to the sea, carrying their wounded and their dead. The survivors called themselves the Chosin Few. Ogden's monument is one of only a handful in the country that honor them — a Utah acknowledgment that one of the Korean War's fiercest battles, in a war often called forgotten, would not be forgotten here.

What the plaque says

Veterans of CHOSIN RESERVOIR CAMPAIGN North Korea November - December 1950 Whatever we were in that frozen long-ago and whatever we are now, we are bound as one for life in an exclusive fraternity of honor. The only way into our ranks is to have paid the dues of duty, sacrifice and valor by being there. The cost of joining, in short, is beyond all earthly wealth. “They will not be forgotten”

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ogden Union Station — 4.1 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Hill Aerospace Museum — 8.0 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac
• Snowbasin — 8.9 mi
  One of the country's oldest ski areas and a 2002 Olympic downhill venue — world-class terrain that somehow still skis uncrowded.
• Powder Mountain — 14 mi
  The largest ski resort in the United States by acreage — a famously uncrowded "PowMow" now remaking itself under Netflix's Reed Hastings.

More markers nearby

• Martin Henderson Harris — 0.8 mi
• Pleasant Green Taylor — 1.1 mi
• Bingham's Fort — 1.7 mi
• Site of Mound Fort — 2.8 mi