Salt Creek Fort Wall

The people of Salt Creek — the settlement that became Nephi — finished walling their town in November 1854, during the Walker War with the Ute. The rampart of gravel, mud, and straw ran three blocks square and stood twelve feet high, with gates on the north and south, built to shelter a frightened frontier community behind it. It was never tested in a fight, and the town soon outgrew it. This surviving stretch was moved here in 1933 to be saved — a rare piece of the mud walls that once ringed nearly every Utah town.

What the plaque says

Completed in November 1854 by the Pioneers of Salt Creek (Nephi) for protection against Indians. The inclosure was 3 blocks square, from 1st West to 2nd East and from 1st North to 2nd South Streets. Markers have been placed at the corners. The original wall, composed of gravel, mud and straw, was 12 feet high, 6 feet wide at bottom and 2 1/2 feet wide at top, 420 rods in length. Gates were provided in the north and the south walls. This section of the original wall was removed to this site for preservation, November 7, 1933.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Nephi — 0.4 mi
  A quiet ranching town at the foot of Mount Nebo
• Devil's Kitchen — 8.0 mi
  A pocket of red-rock hoodoos high in the green Wasatch — a "little Bryce Canyon"
• Mount Nebo — 8.3 mi
  At 11,928 feet, the highest and southernmost peak in the Wasatch Range
• Nebo Loop Summit — 11 mi
  The byway's 9,300-foot high point, with Utah Valley spread out below

More markers nearby

• First School — steps away
• World War II Memorial Rose Garden — 0.5 mi
• Juab County Veterans Memorial — 0.5 mi
• Juab Co. Jail — 0.6 mi