Operation Desert Storm Memorial

Desert Storm was brief — the 1991 Gulf War's ground campaign lasted about a hundred hours — but it was the first war many of Vernal's younger veterans knew, and it gets its own marker here. There's a fitting symmetry in a high-desert Utah town memorializing a desert war half a world away. Set among Vernal's older memorials, it marks the moment the Uinta Basin's service crossed into a new era: televised, swift, fought by an all-volunteer force, remembered alongside the doughboys who came before.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Vernal — steps away
  The self-proclaimed Dinosaur Capital of Utah
• Utah Field House of Natural History — steps away
  A dinosaur museum with life-size replicas in an outdoor garden
• Steinaker State Park — 4.2 mi
  A warm-water reservoir popular for swimming in the desert heat
• McConkie Ranch Petroglyphs — 6.5 mi
  Massive Fremont-era rock art panels on private ranch land open to visitors

More markers nearby

• American Mother Veterans War Memorial — steps away
• Men of Courage Monument (WWII) — steps away
• Spirit of the American Doughboy (WWI) — steps away
• Vietnam War Memorial — steps away