Devils Tower / Deadwood

Tower is strange and Deadwood is a great American town!

That rock formation looks somewhat like a beautiful petrified tree.

How's the bar in the hotel?

Love both places. Now you have to go to Crazy Horse and Mt Rushmore since your in the area.

Very Cool!!!

How tall is that rock? It makes the trees like mini dwarfs

Did Rushmore on the way up.



867 feet from its base.

Was up that way 2 summers ago, but we missed that unfortunately.

About 867'

That is really cool as hell!

Great pics!

👍

On the list for an upcoming trip. Thanks for sharing.

Rode my Harley from Rockwall four different years past that rock while on my way to Hulett.One year stopped at the store just to browse and watch a few people climbing around on it.It's big but I had no desire to check it out.

Cool story about the rock is before helicopters were invented 2 guys parachuted and landed on top of it with no way to get down. I don't remember how long the ordeal lasted but they built a wooden ladder up the side to get them down. Last time we were there you could still see some parts of the ladder left. True story.

After seeing this on the forum, I went out and did a little research on Devil's Tower and the stories.
I found a real interesting about a couple of ranchers who built a ladder up the tower. See link below.
I know there are others:

https://www.nps.gov/deto/learn/historyculture/first-fifty-years-stake-ladder.htm

Found the story about the parachutist too. Looks like the ladder and parachutist got combined through the years

https://www.nps.gov/deto/learn/historyculture/first-fifty-years-george-hopkins.htm

a link to other stories- quite interesting

https://www.nps.gov/deto/learn/historyculture/stories.htm

The Missouri Buttes to the NW are higher but they aren't flat.

Thanks for the links. That was quiet interesting.

It's an impressive formation. Up close you can see the individual volcanic lava tubes that formed it.

Cool pics! We rode up on our Harleys and based out of Custer, SD, for a few days of road trips...would love to go back!! That's some beautiful country!!