Wallsburg Fort

The Ute knew this pocket of mountains as Little Warm Valley. Settlers came later and called it Round Valley, then Wallsburg, for the man who led them in: William M. Wall, who with a score of pioneer families built a fort here in 1862. Four hundred feet square, it sheltered the twenty households through the dangerous years while they took hold of the valley. The fort is long gone — this monument stands sixty-two feet from where its center was — but the town it protected kept the founder's name, if not the older one the land carried first.

What the plaque says

This monument stands 62 feet South, 2 feet East of the center of the fort built in 1862 by William M. Wall and the pioneers of Wallsburg. 20 families lived in the fort which was 400 feet square. This valley, known to the Indians as Little Warm Valley, was later called Round Valley and finally Wallsburg, honoring its founder.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cascade Springs — 7.4 mi
  Seven million gallons a day welling up through travertine terraces and clear pools
• Sundance Mountain Resort — 8.2 mi
  Robert Redford's intimate, arts-minded ski resort on the slopes of Mount Timpanogos, in the North Fork of Provo Canyon.
• Heber Valley Railroad — 8.3 mi
  A vintage steam train ride through a stunning mountain valley
• Midway — 9.1 mi
  A Swiss-inspired village with a geothermal crater you can snorkel in

More markers nearby

• Fort Wallsburg — steps away
• ZCMI Co-Op Building — steps away
• Charleston Settlement — 5.9 mi
• Pioneer Cemetery — 6.5 mi