So I wasn’t sure what to expect but I gotta tell ya Devil’s Tower (Or as the Native Americans call it Bear Lodge) was fascinating! The Tower is formed of a rare igneous rock, phonolite porphyry, and is the largest example of columnar jointing in the world.) The sheer size of this thing is (867 ft), so it’s something to behold. We hiked 8 miles today through 3 main connecting trails. Two of the trails are an upper and lower loop around the formation (Red Beds & Devil’s Tower trail) The 3rd trail Joyner’s trail leads away from the tower to an outer perimeter a couple of miles out. There were also at least 8 people climbing it to the top which is crazy to see them up there.

Make sure you arrive here by 930 or after 3. When we were leaving there was a crazy long line of cars waiting to get up there and they were only releasing new cars when a car came back down.

Trail on AllTrails
https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/wyoming/joyner-ridge-red-beds-and-devils-tower-trail?sh=utwg4z

Got back to our campsite earlier today. We had an awesome location with an added bonus round of putt putt.