The Devils Tower Wyoming is a mountain originally made famous in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind.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. It became a landing site for an alien craft. Even though aliens haven't landed on it, people still enjoy it.
Lets clear something up from the start. When it's written “Devils Tower Wyoming” that doesn't refer to a town or city in Wyoming, it refers to this mountain. Speaking of which, the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point has some amazing topographical maps on its website. They have an excellent view of the way the tower looms above the land around it. It really is an awesome site.
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 became a national monument on September 24, 1906. It was an act of Theodore Roosevelt, who the people called Teddy. He was never called that by his close friends. He was also responsible for the US involvement in the Panama Canal. The national monument encompasses 5.45 square kilometers. That's 1374 acres.
Look up some 1267 feet to see the top of Devils Tower Wyoming. It's almost a full mile above sea level. The tower is very high. But people still climb it. 4000 people a year, 1% of the 400,000 who travel there, climb the tower. Mount Everest is a much more challenging climb. 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. That doesn't happen at the Devils Tower.
The Triassic Period saw the start of the Devils Tower Wyoming. It includes various types of rocks from sandstone, to silt stone, and shale. It's very colorful.
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