Moab Veterans Memorial

Moab raised this memorial in 1951, when the town was still a quiet ranching and farming community on the Colorado — years before uranium prospecting and then red-rock tourism would remake it entirely. It honors the community's war veterans, the World War II generation most freshly among them. There's something worth noticing in the date: a small, isolated desert town, far from anything, taking care to mark the service of its own at a moment when Moab was about as small and far-flung as it would ever be again.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Moab — steps away
  The adventure capital of the American Southwest
• Grandstaff Canyon — 2.6 mi
  A shaded creek-bottom walk to Morning Glory, the sixth-longest natural rock span in the country
• Corona Arch Trail — 3.9 mi
  A massive arch you can hike to without a national park fee
• Potash Road Dinosaur Tracks — 4.6 mi
  Dinosaur footprints embedded in a cliff face along the Colorado River

More markers nearby

• Early LDS Church — steps away
• Elk Mountain Mission — steps away
• Dewey Bridge — 21 mi