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Devils Tower on pace to have busiest year ever

GILLETTE (WNE) — Devils Tower has been on a record-setting pace so far in 2024.

Through June, 192,682 people visited the national monument in Crook County. That’s up more than 5000 visitors from 2021, which is the busiest year on record for Devils Tower.

In 2021, 550,712 people visited Devils Tower. It was the first time the national monument broke the 500,000-visitor mark, and it happened as the country started to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic and people began flocking to the outdoors.

But if the first half of 2024 is any indication, that rec...