Alaskan Adventure: Day 12. We traveled from Custer KOA to Devil’s Tower KOA today which was a beautiful 3 hour drive through Wyoming. We visited Devil’s Tower first because it was too early to check-in at the campground. The campground is right at the National Monument front entry gates. Another beautiful day of blue skies, cool breeze, and puffy white clouds.

Distant view of Devils Tower and the nearby Missouri Buttes (those bumps on the left) from a pulloff called Salt Creek Overlook.

Dashcam view getting much closer but looks far away because of the wide angle dashcam.

We had to drop the RV and take just the tow car up to the visitors center. The photo above and the two below are from the parking lot where we disconnected. After visiting Devils Tower we reconnected, had lunch, and went back down to the campground.

Explanation of the nearby Missouri Buttes.

Becky says I need more people pictures so here we are, proof we made it back to Devils Tower 33 years after visiting with the kids in 1993.

We hiked up past the trees to the base of the boulder field.

On the way up to the boulder field there was an area of trees covered in strips of cloth, bracelets, and various other trinkets.

More info that you may not care about but I like it.

Leaving the National Monument, we checked into the KOA campground. This dashcam shot of Becky walking over to check-in shows how close to Devils Tower and the park entry the campground is.

The usual gift shop stuff was for sale but they also had a section of ‘historical artifacts’ from the Close Encounters of the Third Kind movie days. This pinball machine brought back memories. Speaking of memories… random Gee Whiz trivia. I was in Paris, France 48 years ago in 1978 on a Ball State Architecture trip called PolyArk when that movie came out. The campground shows the Close Encounters each evening when the sun goes down.

Our campsite view. The last 3 photos below are shots from in front of the RV as we watched from late afternoon to evening sunset.