Tyler Devine News Today

A 6-year-old Massachusetts girl became the youngest female on record to climb Wyoming’s Devils Tower on July 8, when she scaled the tower with her parents and nine-year-old brother.

The country's first national monument has implemented the voluntary closure since 1996 to honor the cultural and religious celebrations of Indigenous peoples, of which 26 tribes hold Devils Tower as significant in their cultural or religious beliefs. It's led to a significant decline in climbers scaling the tower during June among the thousands of visitors that climb each year.