10/19 - Cahokia Mounds, Collinsville, Illnois

On 10/19 we visited the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Collinsville, the largest prehistoric earthworks in the Americas.  I read about it years ago and had wanted to see it ever since.  The complex was very interesting and well worth visiting.

 

This shows what the Monks Mound would have looked like 1000 years ago.

Monks Mound, east side

Monks Mound, front, showing stairway to top

St Louis skyline from Monks Mound

Picture taken at the top of the mound with St Louis in the background. The person who took the picture was from Raleigh, NC, the first North Carolinian of several we met on our travels.