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April 6, 2025

Trees Named in Honor of People Tour

See the many trees of Spiegel Grove and learn about their types and history during a variety of tree tours offered throughout the spring and summer. Tours last about an hour and cover different trees and topics ranging from giant trees to trees that President Rutherford B. Hayes and his descendants named in honor of […]

April 6, 2025

Tree Tour

April 3, 2025

Octagon Earthworks Third Friday Tour

Join us every third Friday of each month for a tour led by Senior World Heritage Archaeologist Brad Lepper! These tours are FREE and do not require pre-registration. Meet at the Octagon Earthworks Visitor Center at 12:30 p.m. There are also ongoing free tours offered at the Octagon Earthworks beginning at Noon, Wednesday–Sunday of each […]

March 20, 2025

World Heritage Week—Mound City Group

Join us for a free ranger-guided tour! 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 […]

March 20, 2025

World Heritage Week—Seip Earthworks

Join us for a 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 us to learn more about this fascinating site.

March 20, 2025

World Heritage Week—Hopewell Mound Group

Join us for a 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 […]

March 20, 2025

World Heritage Week—Hopeton Earthworks

Join us for a 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 […]

March 14, 2025

World Heritage Week—Octagon Earthworks

Join us for a full day of programming to wrap up World Heritage Week! View more activities taking place earlier in the week here. Schedule 11 a.m.– 2 p.m: Food trucks on site Poppy's Roadside Diner, Bite Back and Gyro Hero Noon: Guided tour of the Octagon Earthworks 3–4 p.m: Create-and-take activity for our young visitors. We […]

March 14, 2025

World Heritage Week—Great Circle Earthworks

At Noon, join us for a free guided tour led by Sarah Hinkelman, site manager of the Newark Earthworks and Flint Ridge. At 2 p.m., there will be a children’s storytime: “Grandmother Spider Brings the Sun” with a fun make-and-take activity for kids. (Ages 3–10) View more World Heritage Week programming here.

March 14, 2025

World Heritage Week—Fort Ancient

Join us for a free site tour with Ohio History Connection archaeologist Bill Kennedy. Tour lasts about an hour and a half to two hours. View more World Heritage Week programming here.