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Effigy Mounds National Monument
Operating Hours & Seasons

 

 
Effigy Mounds N.M. Visitor Center
NPS Photo by Ken Block
Visitor Center

Visitor Center

Open

- Weekdays, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
- Weekends, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

 

 




Summer Hours

- June to Labor Day, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
* Call for specific June date at 563.873.3491


Closed

- Thanksgiving Day, December 25, January 1


Park Grounds

- Open daily, 365 days / year, sunrise to sunset (weather permitting). Access is offered (only) via 14 miles of hiking trails.


Location


Highway 76, three miles north of Marquette, Iowa 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
NPS Photo by Ken Block
Hiking along the Fire Point Trail.

Park Grounds

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

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

Did You Know?
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.

Last Updated: November 16, 2007 at 15:23 EST