Hello my friends my family and my followers it's hike 360 here and I'm here to give you a new hike this week. I'm at Lizard Mound County Park in Wisconsin today and I'm here to check out the effigy mounds all 25 of them that exist here from back in the day so Native Americans built these effigy mounds which are sculptures basically in the ground made of the earth and I'm not sure if they did that to like give things to the different animals that they built the mounds to look like or or what the deal was I'm hoping to find out more about that now but nonetheless they built these effigy mounds and they have been preserved in this area they were built in 650 AD to 1250 AD so that's pretty cool looks like there's mounds all over Wisconsin Wisconsin was once the heart of effigy mounds building in North America in the early 1800s more than 20,000 mounds dotted the southern half of the state surrounding lakes lining rivers or perched on bluffs since then most of Wisconsin's mounds have been lost to farming road construction looting and urban development now less than 200 years later only 4,000 remain so it's a pretty small park it's gonna be like a mile hike but we get to check out these effigy mounds I know that there's some that are built in the shape of birds there's some built in the shape of I think it was panthers hang on it was saying it right here panther I didn't know there were panthers in Wisconsin let's see this is not the panthers looking at and in the shape of you guessed it lizards hence lizard mound turtles so yeah there's a nice little interpretive center that's what I've been walking around there's a lot of plaques looks like there's solar panels on the roof so that's cool a lot of efficiency happening but yeah I will give you another video when I find my first mound until then peace