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Effigy Mounds National Monument - Plan Your Visit

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Operating Hours & Seasons

Park grounds are accessed via 14 miles of hiking trails - open daily sunrise to sunset (weather permitting). the visitor center is open weekdays 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., weekends 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with extended hours Memorial Day to Labor Day and weekends in October. The visitor center is closed Thanksgiving Day, December 25th, and January 1st.

Local Partners & Information Resources

Marquette-McGregor Chamber of Commerce

Prairie du Chien Chamber of Commerce

Country Heritage Community

Allamakee County - Iowa

Upper Mississippi Fish & Wildlife Refuge

Getting There

Plane
Regional airports in La Crosse (70 miles) and Madison (120 miles), WI; and Dubuque (70 miles) and Cedar Rapids (120 miles), IA

Car
Three miles north of Marquette, IA or seventeen miles south of Waukon, IA on state highway 76. Also six miles across Mississippi River from Prairie du Chien, WI

Getting Around

As a sacred site to the modern descendants of the moundbuilders, park access is offered via fourteen miles of hiking trails; no self guiding roadways exist in the park.

Three burial mounds and Mississippi River riparian / wetland habitat are accessible near the visitor center via elevated boardwalk trails.

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