Posted on 03/14/2025 5:22:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
There will be no after hours at Devils Tower National Monument. The monument abruptly announced Tuesday that, starting Thursday, the monument is no longer open 24/7 and will only be open from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
The change was announced on the Devils Tower Facebook page. The monument, usually open 24 hours a day, will be closed overnight.
The National Park Service (NPS) has not provided a reason for the sudden change, and Cowboy State Daily couldn’t reach anyone at Devils Tower National Monument for additional clarification. That includes more information about whether that includes camping at the nation’s first national monument.
Public response to the sudden change has not been favorable.
“This is stupidity at its highest level,” said state Sen. Ogden Driskill, R-Devils Tower, whose family has lived at the base of the tower for generations. “Devils Tower has been open 24 hours a day, unstaffed, for 50 years. It’s been that way forever, and I think it’s absolutely ridiculous to do this.”
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Cowboy State Daily - great free newspaper…
Yep. I remember reading that people simply threw the road cones into the gully, stopped and took photos anyway. There was a cartoon back then of two helicopters holding a super huge tarp covering Mount Rushmore.
NPS trying to get attention - probably a good thing to some degree.
They’re so fundamentally underfunded, the 90 day ‘suspension’ is probably really starting to hurt.
Don’t really have a problem with NPS, which should likely be a beneficiary of the fraud/abuse cutting.
Find the NPS employee and fire it. Setting hours for an unstaffed park is stupidity OR TDS?
Protests to this might make sense in another era. But with America having morphed into its current iteration of dope smoking, whoremongering, homosexual filth, devil worshipping wastes-of-oxygen, who knows?
“Devils Tower has been open 24 hours a day, unstaffed, for 50 years. It’s been that way forever, . . .
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So, if it is only open 7a to 5p, that will take an employee to open/close and monitor that. Sounds like the closing needs more employees than when open.
THERE IS NO STAFF.
That may work. I’m just thinking of saving money.
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