@mmiasma
Just down the road.
#Wyoming
#RoadTrip
#DevilsTower
@mmiasma
Just down the road.
#Wyoming
#RoadTrip
#DevilsTower
It wasn't July 4, exactly, on the calendar...but it should have been. A summer's eve near the very center of the United States, providing the most sublime version of nature's fireworks the world has to offer...
My own capture of a "Storm rising at Devil's Tower".
Some of the most sacred places for American Indian nations are located in national parks, but access to their holy ground continues to be contentious. Though the National Park Service has gradually become more responsive and cooperative, full recognition of Indigenous sacred places is still a long way off.
#Alcatraz #DevilsTower #MountRushmore #Pipestone #NationalParks #NationalParkService #NativeAmericans #nature #religion #spirituality
https://www.sacredwonderland.us/native-american-holy-ground/
#DidYouKnow: #DevilsTower (also known as Bear Lodge Butte) is a butte, possibly laccolithic, composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills, near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River.
Devils Tower was the first United States national monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt.
Devil's Tower, Wyoming at Sunrise.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LandscapePhotography/s/bglH7dh4Qe
@WTL
I was delighted to get to the actual location, decades after watching the movie! I was so fascinated with #DevilsTower. My campground, where this photo was taken, showed the movie every night. I didn't actually enter the National Park, even though I have a pass, since it's sacred First Nations territory.
Was inspired to post this memory from my trip out west last June.
The process that formed Devils Tower began about 50 million years ago. Magma was injected into layers of sedimentary rock, forming the Tower one and one-half miles below the earth’s surface. It has since taken millions of years to erode away the surrounding sedimentary rock to expose the Tower we see today.
— at Devils Tower National Monument.
Ranger Sarah has a hiking partner. A robin keeps hopping along the trail in front of her.
— at Devils Tower National Monument.
Ranger Sarah looks at the view from Devils Tower National Monument.
Ranger Sarah learns how the Belle Foruche river has shaped the valley below Devils Tower and how the rivers mighty current millions of years ago exposed Devils Tower.
Ranger Sarah hikes through the boulder field at the base of Devils Tower.
Ranger Sarah with another amazing view of Devils Tower. During the Paleocene Epoch, 56 to 66 million years ago, the Rocky Mountains and the Black Hills were uplifted. Magma rose through the crust, intruding into the existing sedimentary rock layers.
Ranger Sarah with Devils Tower. With binoculars, you can spot the remnants of the 350 foot ladder wedged into a crack of the Tower.
— at Devils Tower National Monument.