It was while nearing Badlands that I did my first double-take. Driving through rolling fields of South Dakota I could see sheep grazing off to the left. My eyes left them, and shot back: several hundred yards from the highway, but only feet from these sheep, the elsewhere smooth horizon was jagged and broken. I could see at an angle that the fields gave way to ragged cliffs of eroded clay and dirt. Arriving at the national park-proper, I took some pictures:
Devil's Tower, as featured in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, is a curious geological feature tucked away in northwestern Wyoming about 20 miles from I-90, but well worth a slightly longer drive. SR 14 winds its way through rugged hills to the top of a high ridge, looking down from which is a gorgeous landscape of thick forests, grass fields, rolling hills, and sheer rock faces. This shot was taken from a closer vantage point:
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