Devils Tower Wyoming – 18
The Devils Tower Wyoming is a mountain originally made famous in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It has a very distinctive look with a flat top and deep ridges all along its size sides. One movie character built models of it in mashed potatoes and dirt. Eventually some aliens landed there. While truth may not be stranger than fiction in this case, it’s still an interesting place.
First there will be an explanation. When it’s written “Devils Tower Wyoming” that doesn’t refer to a town or city in Wyoming, it refers to this mountain. You can check out maps of it at the University of Wisconsin website. Understanding the elevation of the tower is important. That’s incredible, as the saying goes.
Yet one more clarification about Devils Tower Wyoming. Notice that when it’s written the apostrophe is missing. Most people would write it “devil’s”. But don’t worry, the name as written is correct. There is no apostrophe.
Devils Tower Wyoming was declared a national monument in 1906. Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt did it. His close friends never used Teddy. The Panama Canal treaty was also one of his ideas. The national monument is 1374 square acres, which is 5.45 square kilometers.
The Devils Tower Wyoming stands 1267 feet above the surrounding land. That’s almost a mile above sea level. That’s big. But people still climb it. 4000 people a year, 1% of the 400,000 who travel there, climb the tower. It’s not as challenging as Mt. Everest. Of course, the most dangerous part of climbing Mount Everest is getting down the mountain. People line up to make the return climb to the ground. People often die of exposure to the elements while waiting. There’s no such danger at the tower.
It was 200 million years ago when Devils Tower Wyoming began to form. Many types of rocks are found there. The different types of rock make it a beautiful sight.
Visit the local library to learn more about Devils Tower Wyoming.
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