Leaving Laramie, Wyoming, this morning, nosotros headed E on Interstate 80, climbing into the Laramie Mountains. Beyond the pass, nosotros began a long descent on The Gangplank too thence switched to I-25 North at Cheyenne. This highway parallels the Laramie Range, initially at a distance too thence at closed hit most Wheatland, where Laramie Peak (10,500 feet) looms to the northwest too where the Interstate crosses the Laramie River.
Farther north, afterwards passing the Glendo Reservoir too crossing the North Platte River, nosotros headed E on US xviii to Lusk, crossing nondescript grasslands along the way. At Lusk, nosotros turned northward on US 85, shortly driving through a scenic landscape of hills too mesas too crossing the upper Cheyenne River. Nearing Newcastle, yellow sweetness clover blanketed the hills too valleys too bee-hive boxes were spaced along the highway; northward of Newcastle, US 85 undulates through the westward border of the Black Hills, where Paleozoic redbeds adorn the scenery. At Four Corners, nosotros cutting northwest on Route 585 to Sundance too thence followed Routes xiv too 24 northward to Devils Tower, America's commencement National Monument (established past times Theodore Roosevelt inwards 1906).
The geology too natural history of Devils Tower is described inwards an before postal service (see link) too I volition non repeat myself inwards this one. On this mild twenty-four hours inwards mid July, nosotros were greeted past times throngs of immature human being tourists too past times an approaching summertime thunderstorm. Though nosotros did motility into the Monument too joined a parade of humans on the Tower Trail that circles the famous landmark, Devils Tower is best appreciated at a distance, where 1 tin give the sack notice its placement inwards the landscape too persuasion its grandeur inwards relative solitude.
Farther north, afterwards passing the Glendo Reservoir too crossing the North Platte River, nosotros headed E on US xviii to Lusk, crossing nondescript grasslands along the way. At Lusk, nosotros turned northward on US 85, shortly driving through a scenic landscape of hills too mesas too crossing the upper Cheyenne River. Nearing Newcastle, yellow sweetness clover blanketed the hills too valleys too bee-hive boxes were spaced along the highway; northward of Newcastle, US 85 undulates through the westward border of the Black Hills, where Paleozoic redbeds adorn the scenery. At Four Corners, nosotros cutting northwest on Route 585 to Sundance too thence followed Routes xiv too 24 northward to Devils Tower, America's commencement National Monument (established past times Theodore Roosevelt inwards 1906).
The geology too natural history of Devils Tower is described inwards an before postal service (see link) too I volition non repeat myself inwards this one. On this mild twenty-four hours inwards mid July, nosotros were greeted past times throngs of immature human being tourists too past times an approaching summertime thunderstorm. Though nosotros did motility into the Monument too joined a parade of humans on the Tower Trail that circles the famous landmark, Devils Tower is best appreciated at a distance, where 1 tin give the sack notice its placement inwards the landscape too persuasion its grandeur inwards relative solitude.
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