I really wanted to see Devils Tower because it was in the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind".
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Devils Tower is a laccolithic butte which is a isolated hill with steep, often vertical sides that had sheet intrusion that was injected between two layers of sedimentary rock. The pressure of the magma was high enough that the overlying strata was forced upward creating the formation. It's made of igneous rock that was formed from the cooling and solidification of lava. Devils Tower is located in the Bear Lodge Mountains that is part of the Black Hills in northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically into the sky and stands alone at 867 feet. The name Devil's Tower originated in 1875 during an expedition when an interpreter misinterpreted a native name to mean "Bad God's Tower" and so became Devils Tower.
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