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Submitted by stonetracker on Tuesday, 06 August 2024 Page Views: 931

Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Picnic Point Effigy Mounds Alternative Name: 47Da121
Country: United States Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Madison WI
Latitude: 43.085809N Longitude: 89.423055W
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3	Reasonable but with some damage
2	Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1	Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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-1	Completely destroyed

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5	Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4	Short walk on a footpath
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2	A long walk
1	In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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stonetracker visited on 1st Jul 2024 - their rating: Amb: 3 Access: 3 The mounds are on a peninsula in Lake Mendota on conservation land owned by the Univ of Wisc. They are accessible via the Lakeshore Trail. Parking is available at the trailhead for a fee. The first group of 5 mounds is about a 1/4 mile level walk from the lot, next to and just north of the trail. The last conical mound is another 600 ft east along the trail and just to its south. Unfortunately site maintenance seems to be cyclical at best. I was unable to find or positively identify any of the mounds due to summer overgrowth, suggesting that non growing seasons may present better viewing opportunities. There was also no obvious interpretation signage. However, Andrew Khitsun (the owner of the Wisconsin Mounds site) has posted a few photos with most of the overgrowth and some trees removed from the mounds. They are undated but I assume they are at least post-2000. Obviously they have been better maintained in the past than currently.

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**Picnic Point Effigy Mounds** submitted by stonetracker : Map at trailhead of the Picnic Point area (Vote or comment on this photo)

Picnic Point is a peninsula that juts out into the southern waters of Lake Mendota in Madison WI. It is part of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve, owned and managed by the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Roughly 1000-2000 years ago, local inhabitants began to bury their dead in some of the effigy mounds that dot Picnic Point. Archaeological surveys have confirmed the presence of workshops, campsites, and perhaps even an ancient raised garden bed.

There once were seven mounds on Picnic Point, but one mound was destroyed prior to 1912 by relic hunters. Currently there are five extant mounds adjacent to the Lakeshore Path–across from Fire Circle #1. Three are conical, one is linear, and one oval. A sixth large conical mound about 600-700 ft east of the main group can be observed as you head out to the tip of the point, on the south side of the Lakeshore Path just before you reach the Narrows.

Source: Lakeshore Nature Preserve Website
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