Utah Freedom Memorial Battlefield Cross

Boots, a rifle, a helmet, a pair of dog tags — arranged just so, they mean one thing to anyone who has served: a soldier has died. The battlefield cross is older than this monument by more than a century, a field expedient from the Civil War when there was no time for a funeral and no chaplain near. Comrades would plant the fallen one's rifle muzzle-down, set the helmet atop it, and leave the boots below, so the living could stop, salute, and say goodbye. Carved in granite here at Sandy, it does the same slow work.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• International Peace Gardens — 11 mi
  A hidden garden where 28 countries are represented in miniature
• Gilgal Sculpture Garden — 12 mi
  A surreal and eccentric sculpture garden hidden in a residential neighborhood
• Liberty Park — 12 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882
• Snowbird — 13 mi
  The aerial-tram resort of Little Cottonwood Canyon, with steep terrain, deep snow, and one of the longest seasons in the country.

More markers nearby

• Utah Freedom Memorial — steps away
• Hope Rising - To Lift a Nation 9/11 Memorial — steps away
• South Jordan Settlement — 1.6 mi
• West Jordan — 3.0 mi