Devils Tower Wyoming Tourism

One of Wyoming’s most famed landmarks, Devils Tower, was also the nation’s first national monument, having been proclaimed as such on September 24, 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt.

Devils Tower could be called the nation’s first natural monument. It is actually the core of a volcano exposed after millions of years of erosion brought on by the Belle Fourche River and the weather.

The rocks and boulders around the base of the tower are actually broken pieces of columns having fallen from the sides. At its base there is a paved walking path around the perimeter, a distance of one and a quarter miles. The tower is 865 feet high. Today, Devils Tower is perhaps best remembered for the award-winning 1978 movie, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”

Devils Tower has over 450,000 visitors annually. Visitors can enjoy deer and antelope in their natural habitat and kids of all ages will love prairie dog town.

This stump-shaped monument played an important part in history as a landmark for early travelers and as a subject for legends and folklore among local American Indians. A monument to the sky, Devils Tower is considered one of the seven natural wonders of the world.