Saturday, April 12th

Fort Ancient Earthworks

Location: 6123 State Route 350, Oregonia, OH 45054

10:30 a.m: Site tour with Ohio History Connection archaeologist Bill Kennedy. Tour lasts about an hour and a half to two hours.

Sunday, April 13th

Great Circle Earthworks

Location: 455 Hebron Road, Heath, Ohio 43056

Noon: Free guided tour led by Sarah Hinkelman, site manager of the Newark Earthworks and Flint Ridge.

2 p.m: Storytime: “Grandmother Spider Brings the Sun” with a fun make-and-take activity for kids. (Ages 3–10)

Monday, April 14th

Hopeton Earthworks

Location: 990 Hopetown Rd, Chillicothe, OH 45601

10 a.m: Free ranger-guided tour

Hopeton Earthworks is paired with the Mound City Group as part of a vast and ancient Native American ceremonial landscape. Architecture includes earthen monuments memorializing ancestral shrines, and geometric enclosures aligned to the endless cycles of Sun and Moon. Around and under it all is an unseen archaeological landscape marked by timber post circles, craft workshops and everyday settlements.

Tuesday, April 15th

Hopewell Mound Group

Location: 4731 Sulphur Lick Rd., Chillicothe, OH 45601

10 a.m: Free ranger-guided tour

While most Hopewell complexes were seemingly used for less than two centuries, evidence suggests that the Hopewell Mound Group maintained its significance as a ceremonial center throughout the entire era of the Hopewell Culture in Ohio, approximately 400 years. Extended use of these features indicates that the Hopewell Mound Group was the ceremonial center among all the earthworks in this area. At 111 acres, the main enclosure here is the largest single Hopewell earthen-walled area ever found and contained the largest Hopewell burial mound ever built.

Wednesday, April 16th

Seip Earthworks

Location: 7058 US HWY 50, Bainbridge, OH 45612

10 a.m: Free ranger-guided tour

Two thousand years ago, the region between Seip Earthworks and Chillicothe was one of the most important cultural centers in eastern North America, for hundreds of years. Join a ranger-led tour of this site to learn more!

Thursday, April 17th

Mound City Group

10 a.m: Free ranger-guided tour

Location: 16062 State Route 104, Chillicothe, OH 45601

This site is the only fully recreated Hopewell earthwork complex of the five managed by the National Park Service. Mound City Group is a uniquely sacred space, even among Hopewell earthworks. Walking among these burial mounds can give the sense of what it must have been like to attend a ceremonial gathering here nearly 2,000 years ago.

Friday, April 18th

Octagon Earthworks

Location: 125 N. 33rd St., Newark, OH 43055

Noon: Guided tour of the Octagon Earthworks

3–4 p.m: Create-and-Take Activity for our young visitors. We will read Joy Harjo's "Remember”, have a short presentation on the stars and moon and discuss how we think about time, how other cultures think about time and how we remember events and celebrate them. The activity will end with participants creating their own clock or calendar to take home.

5–8:30 p.m: World Heritage Bake It or Make It Contest

• Get ready to raid your craft supplies or pantry and try your hand a recreating a Cultural Heritage Site on the UNESCO World Heritage list! Find ideas on the UNESCO World Heritage webpage: UNESCO World Heritage Centre - World Heritage List
• 2 winners will be selected:
  • One winner will be selected by our Newark Earthworks Site Staff - judged on accuracy to the World Heritage site being replicated, and originality of materials.
  • One winner will be chosen by popular vote - who's the fan favorite!
•  Winners of each category (staff and popular vote) will receive an Ohio History Connection Membership, Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks merch and a guided tour of the Newark Earthworks for you and your friends or family. All submissions will receive Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks swag to take home for their valiant efforts.
• Must be able to fit in a 2-foot by 2-foot space
• Entries can be dropped off beginning April 14th between Noon and 5 p.m. at the Octagon Earthworks Visitor Center but must arrive by 5 p.m. on April 18th - perishable entries cannot be delivered before April 18th.
• Entries must include a printed photo of the World Heritage Site being replicated.
• Public voting will begin at 5:30 and end at 8:30 - winners will be notified on April 19th prizes can be picked up or mailed.

Food Trucks from 4–7 p.m. Get some dinner before the tour!

5–6 p.m: Guided Twilight Tour of the Octagon Earthworks

6–7 p.m: World Heritage Ambassadors Reception

7–8 p.m: "What It Means to be a World Heritage Site" Panel Discussion