Effigy Mounds
Observatory Hill
Blackhawk Country Club Mound Group
Brown, Charles E.,/Arboretum Woods
Burrows Park Effigy Mound
Farwell's Point
Edgewood College
Elmside Park
Forest Hill
Halvorson
Mendota State Hospital
Merrill Springs
Mills Woods/Hudson Park
Vilas Circle Bear Effigy Mound and the Curtis Mounds
Vilas Park
From about 400 to 1300 thousands of effigy mounds were built in the area. The greatest
concentration of conical and effigy mounds on the continent. The mounds, almost all on
hills with views of water, have almost all been lost to vandalism, pillage or
construction.
Between Ridgewood and Midwood avenues in Monona is a burial mound near the "grand crossing"
of Indian trails crossing the Yahara River near its Lake Monona outlet.