National Park Trips

This article is under development and it may take a few days before I have the entire trip documented!

Planning Essentials 

On all my trips I make sure we have a solid plan on what we are going to do along with ideas for backups.   I aim to maximize the amount of time we can spend exploring when visiting destinations 1,500 miles away from home!

Another quick stop where we only visited the visitor center and the Quarry Exhibit Hall.  This exhibit is a building that is built around a cliff that has over 1,500 dinosaur fossils!   It gives visitors an opportunity to see dinosaur fossils, in the cliff, as they are normally found by scientists!   This hall is just a small part of the park as the entire park encompasses 210,844 acres!   We all hope to visit the monument again someday to see more of what it has to offer.    It served as a nice place to stop at before we checked into our hotel.

Devils Tower National Monument is situated just west of Rapid City/Mount Rushmore in Wyoming, visit the NPS page for full details on this unique structure.   It was formed by magma being pushed up into sedimentary rock, which cooled, and formed hard igneous rock.   Overtime the surrounding sedimentary rock eroded away leaving this tower!