Constructed of mud and straw, it's 10 foot high walls were provided portals through which guns could be fired. It had two corner bastions and was approximately 550 feet square.

In the spring of 1866, the fort protected area inhabitants when Blackhawk and his warriors arrived. With the people and most of the livestock inside the fort, the Indian's threats were settled peacefully.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Fort Deseret is the only remaining example of the many adobe forts built in Utah. Today, the fort is part of an undeveloped State Park that continues to stand due to local volunteers. Though most of the 10-foot walls have fallen down, the corners, two bastions, and the majority of the east wall still stand.

Fort Desert is on Utah Highway 257 about one mile south of Deseret, Utah.

Fort Duchesne

In 1885 and 1886 intertribal violence erupted among the Ute Indians, requiring four companies of Infantry and two troops of African-American  Cavalry to be rushed to the area. About 700 Indians confronted the troops near where the soldiers would build Fort Duchesne, but diplomacy averted a clash.

The fort site was officially chosen on August 20, 1886 and construction began in October. Buildings included officers' and enlisted men's quarters, a commissary, a storehouse, and a hospital, all of adobe brick. Fort Duchesne was designated to guard the Indian frontier in eastern Utah, western Colorado, and southwestern Wyoming.