Aztalan State Park

Location & Contact:

County Highway Q
Jefferson, Wisconsin 53549

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Description:

Aztalan state park contains Wisconsin's most important archaeological site. It showcases an ancient Middle-Mississippian village that thrived between A.D. 1000 and 1300.

Archaeologists say that the occupants had cultural traditions in common with Cahokia, a large Middle-Mississippian settlement near East St. Louis, Illinois. The people who settled Aztalan built large, flat-topped pyramidal mounds and a stockade around their village. They hunted, fished, and farmed on the floodplain of the Crawfish River. Portions of the stockade and two mounds have been reconstructed in the park.

Things to Do in the Park
The park is mostly open prairie, with 38 of its 172 acres in oak woods. It has an accessible, reservable picnic shelter; wells; and vault toilets.

You can canoe, boat, and catch northern pike, catfish, and walleye in the Crawfish River, but the park does not have a boat launch.

The park is open from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily. A vehicle admission sticker is required.

Hours:

Monday: 6 a.m. to 11 p.m
Tuesday: 6 a.m. to 11 p.m
Wednesday: 6 a.m. to 11 p.m
Thursday: 6 a.m. to 11 p.m
Friday: 6 a.m. to 11 p.m
Saturday: 6 a.m. to 11 p.m
Sunday: 6 a.m. to 11 p.m