Left Rapid City this morning and stopped in Sundance, WY. This is where the Sundance Kid was held in jail for stealing horses and robbing banks. We went to the Sundance Museum. It was small but interesting. It had all the courtroom furniture used during his trial and 18 month sentence.
We then went to Devils Tower. That was unbelievable. In 1906 President Teddy Roosevelt designated Devils Tower as the nations first national monument. It is a core of a volcano exposed after millions of years of erosion brought on the Belle Fourche River and the weather. The tower stands 865 feet high. It was the tower that was in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. We did the hike around the perimeter of the tower. It was 1 1/4 miles. Doesn't sound like much but it took us about 1 1/2 hrs,,,,,it's all up and down. Nice hike though. We spent several hours at this place. (see pictures)
We drove another few hours and stopped in Buffalo, Wy for the night.
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