Sundance and Devil's Tower--Sept. 12, 2008

Friday morning we rode into Sundance, Wyoming. The Sundance Kid was named after the town-he spent some time in the local jail before he teamed with Butch Cassidy. There was a nice museum of local history in the basement of the courthouse.

From Sundance we drove to Devil's Tower National Monument. We visited it in 1990 with Bobby and Jennifer. It hadn't changed much--you can see it for quite a distance before actually arriving at the park.

We decided to walk the trail around the base of the tower. Once again we were outnumbered by foreign tourists!
These boulders lay at the base of the tower and were once a part of the tower.
There is a column of the tower that is loose, but geologists can't predict when it will fall! People still climb that area. As we left the Devil's Tower area, we stopped to watch the prairie dogs play.
We enjoyed our stay at Keyhole State Park and made plans to move to an Army Corps of Engineers park on Saturday.