Cahokia Mounds

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park is located just outside of St. Louis, on the other side of the state line. American Indians who lived there more than 800 years ago built the intriguing Cahokia Mounds. It is thought that the mounds represent the biggest pre-Columbian metropolis north of Mexico.

69 mounds are still standing, and they are currently covered in grass. Monks Mound, the tallest of these mounds at more than 100 feet, is the biggest. Woodhenge, a sizable circle made of 48 wooden posts that corresponds with the solar calendar and is strikingly similar to Stonehenge in England, is another fascinating feature of Cahokia.

The site is available to the public, managed by the Illinois Historic Preservation Division, and funded by the Cahokia Mounds Museum Society. It is the biggest prehistoric earthen building in the Americas north of Mexico. The Cahokia Mounds were chosen as one of the Illinois 200 Great Places by the American Institute of Architects Illinois component in honor of the 2018 bicentennial of the state of Illinois.

Google rating: 4.7/5.0
Location: Collinsville, IL, US
Phone: +1 618-346-5160
Opening hour: Thursday to Sunday, 9 am to 5 pm.