So some of this is out of order, but I wanted to get some photos up.
After Badlands National Park, we went to Devil's Tower in Wyoming. Apparently the tower was made when magma was pushed up into a cavity of rock and cooled. The surrounding rock was eventually eroded leaving the harder basalt to remain. It was the first National Monument and has a lot of history with Native Americans throughout the region. We managed to run most of the trails in the area during the one night we were there and pulled out.
After Devil's Tower we went down to Nebraska and checked off a bunch of other parks. Agate Fossil Beds was a little dull, but we were surprised that Scott's Bluff was interesting. It was a major crossroads during the Oregon Trail and pony express years. One hundred years later you can still see the imprints of where the wagons went through.
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