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Witness ancient brilliance in each of the Hopewell earthworks

Great Circle Earthworks

Great Circle Earthworks

Great Circle Earthworks

Octagon Earthworks

Octagon Earthworks

Octagon Earthworks

Mound City

Mound City

Mound City

Hopewell Mound Group

Hopewell Earthworks

Hopewell Mound Group

Hopeton Earthworks

Hopeton Earthworks

Hopeton Earthworks

High Bank Works

High Bank Works

High Bank Works

Seip Earthworks

Seip Earthworks

Seip Earthworks

Fort Ancient

Fort Ancient

Fort Ancient

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July 2026
A ranger on tour with a group of visitors at Mound City Group. NPS / Tom Engberg

Summer Ranger Guided Tours of Mound City

Mound City Group is the location of the park’s only visitor center and is typically the first stop for visitors. A sacred site built by Native Americans, Mound City is the only Hopewell earthwork to have been restored. Walking among these burial mounds can give the sense of what it must have been like to...
26 Jul
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Mound City
16062 State Route 104, Chillicothe, OH 45601.
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A ranger on tour with a group of visitors at Mound City Group. NPS / Tom Engberg

Summer Ranger Guided Tours of Mound City

Mound City Group is the location of the park’s only visitor center and is typically the first stop for visitors. A sacred site built by Native Americans, Mound City is the only Hopewell earthwork to have been restored. Walking among these burial mounds can give the sense of what it must have been like to...
27 Jul
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Mound City
16062 State Route 104, Chillicothe, OH 45601.
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A ranger on tour with a group of visitors at Mound City Group. NPS / Tom Engberg

Summer Ranger Guided Tours of Mound City

Mound City Group is the location of the park’s only visitor center and is typically the first stop for visitors. A sacred site built by Native Americans, Mound City is the only Hopewell earthwork to have been restored. Walking among these burial mounds can give the sense of what it must have been like to...
28 Jul
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Mound City
16062 State Route 104, Chillicothe, OH 45601.
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A ranger on tour with a group of visitors at Mound City Group. NPS / Tom Engberg

Summer Ranger Guided Tours of Mound City

Mound City Group is the location of the park’s only visitor center and is typically the first stop for visitors. A sacred site built by Native Americans, Mound City is the only Hopewell earthwork to have been restored. Walking among these burial mounds can give the sense of what it must have been like to...
29 Jul
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Mound City
16062 State Route 104, Chillicothe, OH 45601.
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Image of the moon peeking over the mounds at the Octagon Earthworks.

Full Moon Tour of the Octagon Earthwork

After Hours Tour: Octagon Earthworks Join us for a special after-hours tour of the Octagon Earthwork, part of the Newark Earthworks, and experience this incredible site in a whole new light—literally! Meet us just before sunset at the Octagon Earthworks Visitor Center. From there, we’ll embark on a guided, hour-long walking tour led by Sarah...
29 Jul
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Octagon Earthworks
125 N. 33rd St., Newark, OH 43055
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A ranger on tour with a group of visitors at Mound City Group. NPS / Tom Engberg

Summer Ranger Guided Tours of Mound City

Mound City Group is the location of the park’s only visitor center and is typically the first stop for visitors. A sacred site built by Native Americans, Mound City is the only Hopewell earthwork to have been restored. Walking among these burial mounds can give the sense of what it must have been like to...
30 Jul
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Mound City
16062 State Route 104, Chillicothe, OH 45601.
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A ranger on tour with a group of visitors at Mound City Group. NPS / Tom Engberg

Summer Ranger Guided Tours of Mound City

Mound City Group is the location of the park’s only visitor center and is typically the first stop for visitors. A sacred site built by Native Americans, Mound City is the only Hopewell earthwork to have been restored. Walking among these burial mounds can give the sense of what it must have been like to...
31 Jul
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Mound City
16062 State Route 104, Chillicothe, OH 45601.
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August 2026
Hopeton Earthworks aerial shot mowing

Ranger-led Tour at Hopeton Earthworks

Special note: This site does not have a restroom This complex masterpiece of landscape architecture includes earthen monuments memorializing ancestral shrines, and geometric enclosures aligned to the endless cycles of the Sun and Moon. Around and under it all is an unseen archeological landscape marked by timber post circles, craft workshops and everyday settlements. Tour...
03 Aug
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Hopeton Earthworks
990 Hopetown Road Chillicothe, OH 45601
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Archaeologist Brad Lepper giving a tour to a group of people at the Great Circle Earthworks.

First Friday Tours at the Great Circle with Brad Lepper

Join Senior World Heritage Archaeologist Brad Lepper at the Great Circle of Newark Earthworks on the first Friday of every month for a guided tour! Over the course of an hour, he will lead you to features that define the Great Circle and explain how this amazing site is worthy of UNESCO World Heritage status....
07 Aug
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Great Circle Earthworks
455 Hebron Road, Heath, Ohio 43056
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Archaeologist Bill Kennedy gives a tour in the Fort Ancient museum.

First Friday Archaeology Tour

Take a walk through the museum and grounds of Fort Ancient with archaeologist Bill Kennedy of the Ohio History Connection. This walking tour gives an overview of pre-contact American Indians in and at Fort Ancient: one of the most outstanding and best-preserved Hopewell earthworks. Please meet in the lobby in front of the museum gift...
07 Aug
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Fort Ancient
6123 State Route 350, Oregonia, OH, USA
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Octagon avenue to Circle

Newark Earthworks Lecture Series

Join us at the Octagon Earthworks Visitor Center on the third Thursday of each month as we welcome experts from multiple fields speaking on topics connected to how we understand and learn about Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks; from archaeological and indigenous perspectives to stories about how Earthworks have been preserved and protected. This program is geared...
20 Aug
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Octagon Earthworks
125 N. 33rd St., Newark, OH 43055
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Fall at Fort Ancient Earthworks & Nature Preserve with a light dusting of snow around a tree.

Third Friday Archaeology Tour

Take a walk through the museum and grounds of Fort Ancient at 1 p.m. on the third Friday of each month with Archaeologist Bill Kennedy of the Ohio History Connection. This walking tour gives an overview of pre-contact American Indians in and at Fort Ancient: one of the most outstanding and best-preserved Hopewell earthworks. Please...
21 Aug
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Fort Ancient
6123 State Route 350, Oregonia, OH, USA
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