Devils Tower, Wyoming by Kane

Eight years ago my cousin, my family and I went to South Dakota and Wyoming on vacation. We saw several cool things like Mount Rushmore, a cave and the Badlands, but the thing that amazed me the most (and kind of freaked me out) was Devil’s Tower. After I learned that it was an extinct Volcano my irrational preschooler mind got scared that it would erupt. It was one of the strangest things I had ever seen.

Fast forward eight years along our August RV adventure trip when I learned that we would probably be going back to Devil’s Tower I got pretty excited. When I finally saw it again I thought “it looks smaller.” We did a hike around Devil’s tower that eight years ago was my very first mile hike then it was pretty hard but now after hiking seven miles on the Grinnell Glacier hike it was quite easy hiking one mile on fairly flat terrain. But with all of this it wasn’t like I didn’t learn anything new, because I did learn about porcupines from a ranger talk that day, and also we did the hardest junior ranger booklet we’ve done yet. I know that someday I’ll want to see it again.

 

Some German tourists saw us sitting together on a bench at Devils Tower and
asked us if they could take this picture.