Follow In the Footsteps of Ancient Engineers
Now a nearly forgotten culture, Poverty Point at its peak 3,000 years ago was part of an enormous trading network that stretched for hundreds of miles across the continent. It was - and is - also an engineering marvel, the product of five million hours of labor. Explore the culture of a highly sophisticated people who left behind one of North America’s most important archeological sites.
1 Feb 2022
This site is operated by the State of Louisiana. We headed to the Visitors Center and took in all the exhibits. The exhibits were very educational and told the history of this area very well. We also took in the movie that is offered at the Visitors Center. After taking in all that the Visitors Center had to offer, we headed out to take the 2.4-mile loop road around the site. We stopped at a few of the mounds and walked to the top of the largest mound "A". While driving the loop we were treated to a wildlife encounter of a family of racoons. This was an amazing site and hard to comprehend the amount of work it took to build these mounds and ridges. We spent 3 hours here.
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Our 153rd NPS Unit
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