Fort Wallsburg

The Utes called this pocket of high ground Little Warm Valley. The settlers called it Round Valley, then named it for the man who led them in: William Wall, a North Carolinian who helped cut the Provo Canyon road. In 1862, as fear of Indian raids ran high, some twenty families raised a fort here, a square four hundred feet on a side, and moved inside together. That fort was the whole town at first. Wallsburg grew outward from it slowly and never grew large; a few hundred people still farm the valley the Utes named for its warmth.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cascade Springs — 7.4 mi
  Seven million gallons a day welling up through travertine terraces and clear pools
• Sundance Mountain Resort — 8.2 mi
  Robert Redford's intimate, arts-minded ski resort on the slopes of Mount Timpanogos, in the North Fork of Provo Canyon.
• Heber Valley Railroad — 8.3 mi
  A vintage steam train ride through a stunning mountain valley
• Midway — 9.1 mi
  A Swiss-inspired village with a geothermal crater you can snorkel in

More markers nearby

• ZCMI Co-Op Building — steps away
• Charleston Settlement — 5.9 mi
• Indian Peace Treaty — 8.4 mi
• Abram Hatch Home — 8.4 mi