Poverty Point World Heritage Site — Attraction in Delhi

An amazing archeological site. It’s earliest inhabitants ate mastodon and ground sloths.

When visiting, go straight to the visitors center. They offers guides for both a walking tour and a driving tour. They also offer a guided train ride. I strongly recommend taking the guided tour before doing your own driving and/or walking tour.

The visitors center also has short movies about the site. These informative shorts were a great visual to help imagine the people and activities of the site. Touring with knowledge gives depth and meaning to the history of the site.

Again, the history of the site is amazing. This site is one of the oldest in the worlds, older then Stonehenge and the pyramids. The site is food for fodder for anyone interested in the the early American natives. What happened to their dead? There were no burial sites. Is it the first city in North America? Who were the people who lived there? No bones for DNA testing. These hunter gathers were not nomadic. It’s estimated that 700 people lived on the site. Yet, it was not an agricultural site.

The walk up one of the tallest mounds in Northern American is doable for people who can walk up stairs, but find stair challenges. There were two bench stops and rails when needed.

Give your self several hours for the tour and bring a hat, sunscreen, bug repellent and water.

Admission is free to anyone over 62 and only $4.00 for...

This was a fun experience! The entrance fee was $4! Free entrance for children under five (I might have that age wrong) and for seniors. I got to extend my knowledge with regard to Native American culture. I enjoyed the extensive information in the museum. The artifacts were interesting and eye opening on the technology back in the B.C. era. The museum displayed a twelve minute video that also gave you more facts on Poverty Point. You are given two options to explore the land. You can take a two mile trail walk or drive your car through the land. I decided to take the 2 mile hike. I recommend that you were comfortable shoes, and if it rained the previous day wear shoes that can get muddy and wet. The mud and water came up to my ankles, and I wore Nike running shoes that WERE white. Bad mistake. Also, aware of the wildlife on the floor. I stepped on a small snake, and was straddled. I took a star away because the posts that marked the sights were not very visible and could be lost in certain places. Also, the mowed path was very faint so I used my best instinct at times to follow the trail and map. Overall, it was a...

My 3rd grader is studying Poverty Point and prehistory in her class this year, so our family decided to make a field trip of it. We went on a low-traffic day and found the grounds to be COVID-safe (which is the first thing I scan for in reviews these days). You park at the main building and there's a museum with well-detailed artifacts that you can spend anywhere from a few minutes to an hour browsing. Ranger Mark is AWESOME and spent ample time answering our myriad questions and orienting us to the site. We did the self-guided walking tour, which is 2+ miles and took us about an hour and a half to see everything, including climbing Mound A. We went in December, and the terrain was wet and squishy but we wore waterproof hiking boots and insulated rain gear so it was no problem. But it's definitely rugged so come prepared. They have a junior ranger program where kids fill out a packet and do a mini-lesson with the ranger, and then they get sworn in by the ranger and given a badge. My kid loved it and proudly showed her whole class. We would love to return and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in culture, heritage,...