• A quiet summer walk through the Marching Bear Group of effigy mounds

    Effigy Mounds

    National Monument Iowa

Operating Hours & Seasons

 
Effigy Mounds N.M. Visitor Center

Visitor Center

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Visitor Center

The visitor center is OPEN year round except for Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year's Day and extreme weather conditions.


Hours
Spring Hours
-8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Summer Hours
- Memorial Day to Labor Day, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Fall Hours (September 3)
-8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Winter Hours (October 28)
- Daily, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Park Grounds

- Open daily, 362 days / year, sunrise to sunset (weather permitting). Access is offered (only) via 14 miles of hiking trails.


Location

Three miles north of Marquette, Iowa on Hwy 76 along the western shore of the upper Mississippi River


Special Programs

Special ranger museum talks and Indian mound talks are presented periodically throughout the year


Exhibits

Museum features artifacts, documents and maps from the monument's archeological collections.


Available Facilities

Auditorium with orientation film showing throughout the day, educational bookstore, restrooms.

 
Kids hiking through upland forest trail

Hiking along the Fire Point Trail.

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Park Grounds

Access is offered (only) via 14 miles of hiking trails which are open daily sunrise to sunset (weather permitting).

Did You Know?

Ellison Orr Map of Marching Bear Group - Effigy Mounds N.M. Collections

Ellison Orr was 92 years old when Effigy Mounds National Monument was dedicated. The Monument owes much to his accurate maps, and careful cataloguing of hundreds of sites and artifacts. Orr died in 1951, leaving most of his personal collection of manuscripts, artifacts, and samples to the monument.