FUN-travel: Black Hills, SD – Spearfish Canyon & Devils Tower, WY
August 23, 2018 by Susan Clarke
…52 miles from Belle Fourche…
…this massive rock monolith…
& escalates to 1,267 feet…
…above the Belle Fourche River…
- Hwy 34 offers more open…
…& rolling landscape…
…than the Black Hills…
…and a whole lot prettier scenic drive…
…than Hwy 44 to the Badlands!
- Return via I-90 took us to…
…Spearfish Canyon Scenic Byway…
…a stunning 19-mile cruise…
…through towering limestone walls…
…& dense deciduous forest…
…flowing next to Spearfish Creek with multiple waterfalls.
FUN-fact – President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower National Monument, the first national monument in 1906.