Site of Mound Fort

When the Indian troubles of the 1850s put the scattered farms around Ogden on edge, church leaders told settlers to pull together behind walls. Several mud-and-adobe forts went up across the valley; this was one — Mound Fort, named for a low rise on the north side of town. Families crowded their cabins inside the walls, worked the fields by day, and kept watch. The danger passed, the walls came down, and Ogden spread out over the ground the fort had stood on. What is left is the name, still carried by this corner of the city.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ogden Union Station — 1.7 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Hill Aerospace Museum — 6.3 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac
• Snowbasin — 6.4 mi
  One of the country's oldest ski areas and a 2002 Olympic downhill venue — world-class terrain that somehow still skis uncrowded.
• Powder Mountain — 14 mi
  The largest ski resort in the United States by acreage — a famously uncrowded "PowMow" now remaking itself under Netflix's Reed Hastings.

More markers nearby

• Bingham's Fort — 1.0 mi
• Ogden City Cemetery G.A.R. Monument — 1.1 mi
• Ogden City Cemetery WWI Doughboy — 1.2 mi
• Farr's Fort — 1.2 mi