- The Devils Tower mostly has hexagonal columns.
- You can climb the Devils Tower without a guide – at your own risk.
- register at the ranger station before and after climbing the Devils Tower.
- Devils Tower, an impressive formation amid a relatively flat region, raises natural questions among many viewers as to how it formed.
- Many lavas form hexagon-shaped columns as they cool, but none are as large as the column widths (10 feet) at Devils Tower, or as tall.
- In recent years, about 1% of the Monument’s 400,000 annual visitors climbed Devils Tower, mostly using traditional climbing techniques.
- In this guide we explain everything you need to know about visiting Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming for the first time, based on our experience.
- Devils Tower is a monolithic igneous intrusion or volcanic neck located in the Black Hills in northeastern Wyoming (U.S.), above the Belle Fourche River.
- Devils Tower was featured in the 1977 movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which turns the tower into an alien landing site.
- Depending on where you read about Devils Tower, it was unclear whether or not the Interagency Pass would be accepted for the entrance fee.
- Devils Tower is an igneous rock butte in Wyoming. It is 867 feet tall from the base to the summit. It rises 1,267 feet above the Belle Fourche River.
- Recorded July 17, 2014Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion or laccolith in northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet above the surrounding terra...