Juab County Veterans Memorial

Dedicated in 2008, this Nephi memorial gathers Juab County's veterans across all the wars into a single place of honor — the more comprehensive companion to the town's older, gentler rose garden a short distance away. Juab is a small, rural county hugging the western desert, the kind of place whose contribution to the nation's wars is easy to overlook precisely because it is small. Memorials like this one exist partly to refuse that overlooking: to insist that the service of a few hundred from a quiet county still counts.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Nephi — steps away
  A quiet ranching town at the foot of Mount Nebo
• Devil's Kitchen — 8.3 mi
  A pocket of red-rock hoodoos high in the green Wasatch — a "little Bryce Canyon"
• Mount Nebo — 8.7 mi
  At 11,928 feet, the highest and southernmost peak in the Wasatch Range
• Nebo Loop Summit — 12 mi
  The byway's 9,300-foot high point, with Utah Valley spread out below

More markers nearby

• World War II Memorial Rose Garden — steps away
• Juab Co. Jail — 0.2 mi
• First School — 0.4 mi
• Salt Creek Fort Wall — 0.5 mi