Recent Videos and Activities tagged with Field Trips

Kingsley Bend Mound Group

Overlooking the Wisconsin River in south-central Wisconsin, the well preserved and maintained Kingsley Bend mound group is owned and managed by the Ho-Chunk Nation. These mounds formerly were preserved within [more]

October 8, 2018

Rice Lake Mound Group, Indian Mounds Park

Twelve mounds of the Rice Lake Mound Group are preserved in Indian Mounds Park, a city park on the shore of Rice Lake. The group once consisted of fifty-one conical [more]

October 8, 2018

Indian Mounds Park

Three linear and six conical mounds of the Cipra mound group can be viewed on this highway wayside along Hwy 60 near the Wisconsin River, five miles east of Bridgeport, [more]

October 8, 2018

Burrows Park

Burrows Park, a small park on the shore of Lake Mendota, contains a bird effigy mound with a wingspan of 128 feet. A second effigy — a fox or canine-like [more]

October 8, 2018

Wyalusing State Park

Wyalusing State Park is located near Prairie du Chien on the high bluffs overlooking the confluence of the Mississippi and Wisconsin Rivers. High vistas offer spectacular views of the rivers [more]

October 8, 2018

Aztalan State Park

Located on the Crawfish River, one mile east of Lake Mills, Wisconsin, Aztalan is Wisconsin’s premiere archaeological site. Prior to a.d. 1050, this site was the location of a Late [more]

October 8, 2018

Madeline Island Museum

Picturesque and historic Madeline Island first cast its spell on Leo Capser in 1903. In 1958, the love he felt for the island manifested itself into the Madeline Island Museum. [more]

October 8, 2018

Lake Emily County Park

Several small groups of conical, oval, and short linear forms are located within this scenic park, situated on Lake Emily in Portage County. A group of six oval mounds, four [more]

October 7, 2018

Bird Effigy, Cassville Bluffs Natural Area

A large bird effigy a wingspan of 270 ft. flies down a bluff slope edge high above the Mississippi River at the Cassville Bluffs Natural Area. It was documented in [more]

October 7, 2018