Devil's Tower

There is a campground in the park but it’s primitive. The KOA campground is right at the entrance to the National Monument, has full hookups, and it plays the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind every night on its outdoor screen. Trees, grass, views, birds… This might be the nicest KOA we’ve ever been to.

Devil’s Tower isn’t a volcanic cone. Molten magma was forced up into a fissure in the earth above it, cooled, and cracked underground. Over the next 50 million years, the dirt and rock around the column weathered away, and voila! A Tower!

There is nice paved mile-long trail around the base. It’s covered with people in the summertime. There is another loop trail around the tower that is slightly rugged and is three times as long. That one is empty of people, but provided great views of the tower,




lots of birds, mule deer, and a five foot bull snake.