Devils Tower, Wyoming

Devils Tower Wyoming
Cloudy rain and 75
Devils Tower KOA

For those of you that follow along you know we have a tendency to do very long drive days then stop for a while.  The drive from Salt Lake City to Devils Tower (600 miles) was no exception.  We had truly planned on stopping somewhere along the way but the miles just kept passing by.  We left Salt Lake bright and early to miss the traffic at 7am.  We stopped in Evanston to check the mailbox (full of junk mail, no million dollar checks) and headed towards Rawlin, WY.  After a brief stop to start the toad, water the pups and have a bite to eat we headed off to Casper, then Gillette.  By then we were almost to the tower and we still had daylight left.

A very windy rest stop 

We followed this double rainbow for a very long way

A processing plant

It looked like coal was conveyed across the highway to the processing plant

Wyoming was flat all the way across with tons of gas wells drilling equipment.  It wasn't until you got to the North Eastern corner that some hills materialized.  

Devils Tower was our first National Monument 

The Beast and the Tower

The mountain is a little large for a Selfie

You can always rely on nice people to snap a photo if you snap one of them

Prairie Dog Town

The pups and the Tower

The pups loved going for a ride to see the Prairie Dogs

The sculpture "Sacred Smoke"

It was a beautiful afternoon

Then  nightfall with lots of thunder and lightening 

The morning fog

We only spent two nights there and had to watch Close Encounters of the Third Kind.  I had forgotten most of it and it really aged well.  We watched the lightening and the massive rainfall all night.  It really was spectacular!

Saturday finds us at Mount Rushmore.  We will be heading out early to avoid the 2-3 inches of rain expected.  Also, there is an old car rally in Deadwood, so we want to avoid the traffic.