Winter Solstice Celebration

Celebrate the longest night of the year by joining a park interpreter to learn about the prehistoric builders of this site and their earthen calendar. To people who relied on the sun for warmth and food, this day represented the beginning of longer and brighter days to come. Though we are separated by over 1,000 years, you can connect to the Plum Bayou people who likely recognized this night at this very site. Beginning at 3:30 p.m., a park interpreter will lead a guided walking tour of the mound site. We’ll end the tour on Mounds H and observe this extraordinary alignment. After we watch the sunset over Mound S, everyone is invited to the picnic area to warm up at a fire with hot cocoa, apple cider, s’mores and to hear a Native American story told by a park interpreter.