Poverty Point National Monument
Louisiana
Tonight
🌗 46% moon
7.4 h fully dark
Open today
Open
Entrance
Free entry
What To Know Before You Visit
Park grounds and visitor center are open, but you're encouraged to call the visitor center at 318-926-5492 for the latest information and COVID-19 precautions before you visit.
Now a nearly forgotten culture, Poverty Point at its peak 3,000 years ago was part of an enormous trading network that stretched for hundreds of miles across the continent. It was - and is - also an engineering marvel, the product of five million hours of labor. Explore the culture of a highly sophisticated people who left behind one of North America’s most important archeological sites.
No entrance fee.
Hours & seasons
Poverty Point National Monument is managed by the state of Louisiana. Closed on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
Generally open:
winterspringsummerfallHours are reported by the park — verify before you go.
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Weather now: ☀️ Clear, 90°F
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In August 2010, the trees were removed from the earthen mounds at Poverty Point State Historic Site in northeast Louisiana. It provided a unique opportunity to investigate the stability of the earthworks under different vegetation regimes.
The National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT), the Poverty Point World Heritage and State Historic Site, and the Friends of NCPTT, are hosting a three-day training workshop on human remains detection (HRD) dogs in archeological settings. The workshop will be held May 9 - 11, 2023, at the Poverty Point World Heritage Site in Pioneer, Louisiana
Derek Linn speaks with Dr. Diana Greenlee, adjunct assistant professor at the University of Louisiana at Monroe and station archaeologist at the Poverty Point National Monument. NCPTT awarded ULM a grant for a research project that uses dendrogeomorphology to investigate earthwork stability at Poverty Point.
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