Gunnison Valley Veterans Memorial

Gunnison sits in the country where Utah's Black Hawk War was fought hardest, and this memorial reaches back to that frontier conflict as well as forward to the national wars that followed. It honors the valley's veterans across all of them. There's a complicated history folded into that span: the same communities that lost men to the Indian wars of the 1860s later sent their sons to France, the Pacific, Korea, and beyond. The memorial doesn't sort the comfortable history from the uncomfortable — it simply keeps the names of Gunnison Valley's own.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Gunnison — 0.3 mi
  Sanpete's southern hub, home to Utah's oldest operating theater
• Mayfield — 6.5 mi
  Gateway to Twelve Mile Canyon and the Skyline Drive high country
• Sterling — 7.2 mi
  A highway hamlet and the doorway to Palisade State Park
• Palisade State Park — 8.8 mi
  A pioneer-built lake turned central Utah's favorite state park

More markers nearby

• Gunnison Honor Roll — steps away
• Gunnison Pioneers — steps away
• Dover Cemetery — 5.3 mi
• Funk's Lake — 7.1 mi