Veterans Memorial Park

This memorial park honors those who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, the long wars that followed September 11, 2001. It belongs to a small southern Utah community, far from Washington and farther still from Kabul or Baghdad — the kind of town whose young people nonetheless answered when those wars called. These are the newest names a community adds to its memorials, and the rawest, because the families are still here and the losses still close. A park, rather than a slab, gives that grief somewhere open to sit.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tropic — 0.4 mi
  A quiet pioneer town in the shadow of Bryce Canyon
• Mossy Cave Trail — 3.2 mi
  A hidden waterfall and ice cave just off the highway
• Cannonville — 4.0 mi
  Gateway to Kodachrome Basin and the Grand Staircase
• Bryce Canyon Lodge — 4.7 mi
  A 1925 National Historic Landmark perched on the canyon rim

More markers nearby

• Ebenezer Bryce Cabin — steps away
• Tropic Pioneers — 0.2 mi
• Minerals in the Mesas — 5.4 mi
• The Panguitch Quilt Walk — 24 mi