Start from 16 curated places around Devils Tower, WY, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Ponderosa Cafe & Bar
The top table in tiny Hulett, a cafe-and-bar whose surprisingly ambitious kitchen turns out prime rib, steaks and a cult Guinness beer-battered cod amid walls crammed with curiosities. It punches far above what a town this size has any right to, gourmet cooking at home-town prices. The dinner to plan an evening around.
77 Steakhouse & Saloon
The public restaurant at the Golf Club at Devils Tower, plating steaks, burgers and walleye on a patio that looks straight at the Tower. It pairs casual Western fare with skeet shooting and a round of golf in the monument's shadow. The most scenic dinner table in the county.
Trails & outdoors
Tower Trail
The paved 1.3-mile loop that circles the base of the monument through ponderosa pine and the boulder field at its foot. Interpretive signs explain the geology and the columns rise straight overhead the whole way, with benches to stop and crane your neck. The essential, easy walk that everyone does and should.
Joyner Ridge Trail
A 1.5-mile loop along the monument's north edge that climbs a grassy ridge and dips into the draw below, framing the Tower across tall-grass prairie and forest. Far quieter than the base loop, it is the local favorite for sunset when the rock turns gold. The best photographer's walk in the park.
Things to do
Hulett Museum & Art Gallery
A free small-town museum in downtown Hulett packing dinosaur bones, Native American artifacts and ranching-and-rodeo displays into the story of this corner of Wyoming. It is a quick, characterful stop and a good rainy-hour fallback near the monument. Punches above its size for a free admission.
Rogues Gallery and Museum
The personal gallery of a noted Western artist whose work hangs in the Smithsonian, a charming step back in time in downtown Hulett. It is an unexpected dose of serious art in a tiny ranching town, full of cowboy-country paintings and prints. A genuine surprise worth the stop.
Landmarks & sights
Devils Tower National Monument
The nation's first national monument, a 867-foot stump of fluted volcanic rock that erupts straight out of the rolling prairie and the Belle Fourche valley. Sacred to many Plains tribes and instantly familiar from film, it is one of those landmarks that is bigger and stranger in person than any photo prepares you for. The reason everything else here exists.
Devils Tower Prairie Dog Town
A sprawling colony of black-tailed prairie dogs spread across the meadow along the monument entrance road, popping up and chirping warnings as you pass. It is a guaranteed wildlife hit, especially with kids, and a classic stop on the drive up to the Tower. Easy, free and endlessly entertaining.