Kane County Veterans Memorial

Kanab sits in Utah's far south, red-rock country so cinematic that Hollywood filmed scores of Westerns here — but this memorial isn't about the movies. It honors the veterans of Kane County, one of the least populated counties in the state, across all the wars it has sent its people to. The contrast is quietly striking: a landscape the rest of the country knows mainly as a backdrop for staged gunfights, marking the real service and real losses of the small communities that actually live among those rocks.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Kanab — steps away
  Little Hollywood — where hundreds of Western movies were filmed
• Best Friends Animal Sanctuary — 8.6 mi
  The largest no-kill animal sanctuary in the United States
• Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park — 11 mi
  Sweeping dunes of coral-colored sand framed by red cliffs
• Mount Carmel Junction — 15 mi
  The crossroads where the road to Zion meets the highway to Bryce

More markers nearby

• Powell Survey — steps away
• Jacob Hamblin — 0.4 mi
• Fort Kanab — 0.4 mi
• Johnson Canyon Cemetery — 8.8 mi