Escalante-Boulder Veterans Memorial

Escalante and Boulder are among the most remote towns in the Lower 48 — Boulder was one of the last places in America to get its mail by mule, into the 1940s. This memorial, dedicated in 2004, honors the veterans of two communities whose combined population has always been small and whose distance from the rest of the country is the whole point of the place. It's a reminder that even the most isolated corners of the map send their people to the nation's wars, and remember them when they don't return.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Escalante Interagency Visitor Center — steps away
  Your essential stop before heading into the backcountry
• Escalante — steps away
  The town that gave Grand Staircase-Escalante its name
• Escalante Petrified Forest State Park — 0.3 mi
  Walk among 150-million-year-old stone trees
• Lower Calf Creek Falls — 9.9 mi
  A 126-foot waterfall hidden in a desert canyon

More markers nearby

• First Public Building — steps away
• L.D.S. Tithing Office — steps away
• Escalante — steps away
• Old White Church — steps away