Destinations · Illinois
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
IL · 38.6564, -90.0588
Historic National Road - Illinois and Great River Road are 2 of 6 signed byways within 30 miles of Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Illinois.
Understand
The main features of the site are the 70 remaining man-made mounds, the largest of which is Monks Mound, around 100 ft (30 m) tall. The rest of the 2,200-acre (890-hectare) site consists of many grass covered mounds that vary in size and shape, several interpretive trails and signage, a reconstruction of the Woodhenge sun calendar, and reconstructions of the palisade/stockade walls.
The same roads run past St. Louis, where they are ranked and described in full.
Day-trip loops
Ready-made loops for Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site are growing. What is within reach is measured today; plan a live day trip and the engine routes it now.
Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- Historic National Road - Illinois · inside · national
- Great River Road · 5 mi · national
- Historic Route 66 · 6 mi · national
- Historic Route 66 - MO · 10 mi
- Meeting of the Great Rivers Scenic Route · 12 mi · national
- Great River Road - Missouri · 20 mi
National parks
- Gateway Arch National Park · 7 mi
Lookouts
- 7 Gates of Hell: Gate 1 · 6 mi
- 7 Gates of Hell: Gate 2 · 7 mi
- Mississippi River Overlook · 7 mi
- 7 Gates of Hell: Gates 3 and 4 · 7 mi
Named places
- Prairie in Progress · 0 mi
- Cahokia Mounds Interpretive Center · 0 mi
- Monks Mound · 0 mi
- Rattlesnake Mound · 1 mi
- Collinsville Jaycee Sports Complex · 2 mi
- Village of Caseyville Park · 2 mi
- Lions Veteran's Memorial Park · 2 mi
- Morris Hills Park · 2 mi
A day out of Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, planned on real roads
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Take the scenic way to Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site.
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Fairmont City · 2 mi
- Collinsville · 4 mi
- East St. Louis · 5 mi
- Granite City · 6 mi
- Cahokia · 9 mi
- O'Fallon · 9 mi