WYOMING
Located in the northeast corner of Wyoming is the country's first national monument—Devils Tower. This monument is made up of igneous rocks that rises 867 feet above Wyoming's rolling prairies.
It was the movie backdrop in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, as an oral story telling mode of Northern Plains Indians.
As a National Momument, the "forever pass" that seniors may purchase is valid, along with valid identification. Without these, there is a $25.00 per car charge.
It was the movie backdrop in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, as an oral story telling mode of Northern Plains Indians.
As a National Momument, the "forever pass" that seniors may purchase is valid, along with valid identification. Without these, there is a $25.00 per car charge.
- In 1906, President Teddy Roosevelt named the tower the United States' first national monument.
- The alternative name is Bears Lodge, and known as a sacred worship site by many American Indians who leave colorful prayer cloths tied to trees near its base.
- According to the National Park Service, “When the proclamation establishing Devils Tower was published, the apostrophe was unintentionally dropped from 'Devil’s' — and this clerical error was never officially corrected.”
- Rocks regularly break away from the tower's steep walls.
- A variety of animals make their home in and around the monument, including deer, prairie dogs, rabbits, bats, red fox and bobcats.
