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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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June 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...
16 Jun
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...
17 Jun
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...
18 Jun
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Mound City
16062 State Route 104, Chillicothe, OH 45601.
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Image of the Octagon Earthworks with the morning sun shining on the mounds.

Lecture and Book Signing with John E. Hancock

Join us on June 18 at the Octagon Earthworks Visitor Center for a special evening celebrating the release of John E. Hancock’s new book, Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks: Landscape Monuments of the Ancient Ohio Valley. Event Schedule • Doors open: 6:30 p.m. • Lecture begins: 7 p.m. John Hancock will share the story behind Ohio’s remarkable...
18 Jun
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Octagon Earthworks
125 N. 33rd St., Newark, OH 43055
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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...
18 Jun
7:00 pm - 8:00 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...
19 Jun
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Mound City
16062 State Route 104, Chillicothe, OH 45601.
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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...
19 Jun
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Fort Ancient
6123 State Route 350, Oregonia, OH, USA
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crowd at Octagon Earthworks

Third Friday Tours at the Octagon Earthwork with Brad Lepper

Join Senior World Heritage Archaeologist, Brad Lepper, at the Octagon of the Newark Earthworks on the third Friday of every month for a guided tour of this incredible site! Explore the precision and complex geometry of the Octagon that makes clear the ingenuity of Indigenous peoples during the Hopewell Cultural Period. Observe the connection to...
19 Jun
2:00 pm - 3:00 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...
20 Jun
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Mound City
16062 State Route 104, Chillicothe, OH 45601.
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Sun peaking through the twin mounds at Fort Ancient.

Summer Solstice Sunrise

Join Fort Ancient in welcoming the first day of summer by observing the sunrise as the ancient people did 2,000 years ago. Align yourself to watch the sunrise between two walls of earth and above one of the stone covered “calendar” mounds. After the sunrise join us for all ages programs and crafts all about...
21 Jun
5:30 am - 10:00 am
Fort Ancient
6123 State Route 350, Oregonia, OH, USA
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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...
21 Jun
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...
22 Jun
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Mound City
16062 State Route 104, Chillicothe, OH 45601.
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