Reviews of Aztalan State Park (Park)

gary m

Nice museum that we all have to pay for now. The park itself isn't much but is well maintained. It's a nice place to go at night to shine for deer, "to watch only and nothing else".

Carmen Kundinger

Great place for history and walking

Beck Moy

Interesting local history behind this park. Enjoyed learning a lot.

Amber Noel Wilbur

Beautiful and spiritual place!!

Steve Gotzler

Fascinating historical park. Check it out.

Roland Bruegger

Very Spiritual and soothing place

Stephanie Rawlins

Small but interesting be place to walk around. The kids (ages 10, 9 & 7) loved running along the paths and up and over the mounds.

Marissa V

Came here as a kid 10 yeara ago and loved it. Visited a couple days ago with my boyfriend, and its still amazing as ever!

Carol

It's so peaceful here. Interesting information and a nice place to have a picnic.

Jen Lau

Pyramids in Wisconsin!! Heard about this a few years ago and I am so glad we went. Most people I talk to are not aware of the history here. Great little State Park to walk around and explore. Our kids loved it and rated it as one of their favorite places to date. We also had a picnic lunch...be ready to pack out your garbage. The visitor center was open. Enthusiastic staff willing to answer questions. Cash only purchases. Definitely worth the time to go check it out!!

J Howlinutz

It's really cool, you get to explore the outdoors and walk through forts and walk along the river

Brujo De la Mancha

Ceremonial grounds for nahuatlaca people

Alan Sherman

One of the many State treasures so close to Madison and Milwaukee. Living History so close to so many.

Aidan Enerson

Great Fun Place

Loaf Bred

Very intriguing place with a good look into the past

Summers Vincent

Absolutely loved it. Had a great time in this unique historical park. Would recommend to friends.

Angie Brandt

Stop in the information center and learn all about this place!!

Brad Wassenaar

A great place to check out! I never knew it existed.

Brett Perucco

A beautiful quiet park for a hike. If you don't have a State Park Pass be sure to bring a check or exact change as there is no ranger on duty.

Wendy Harlfinger

Very Serene and calming

Ricky Moll

This is such an awesome place. Make your mind wander. Plus you can fish. Bring your own trash bag. There are no receptacles!

relmone80 .

Very nice piece of history good walk. Wish there was better access to the river

Jeffrey Kunkle

Very well laid out educational park. Filled with information. Worth a stop.

Angela D'Ambrosio

A great place to visit if you're in the area, especially for those interested in history or archaeology.

Rebecca Miller

Beautiful even in the winter!

Mike p

History and nature

Henry Johannes

Really cool if you download the MP3 from the state park web page. It takes you on a walking tour.

Sandy Schlaudecker

Historic area. Stream and hiking trails available. Think you could launch a kayak from the banks, though not sure. There are wooden structures resembling what the native Americans constructed hundreds of years ago. Rest rooms available.

josepj digiboys1@hotmail.com

Its still a work in progress but love the history if you love history you need to at least check it out!

Korey Thomas

I went to Cahokia Mounds (misspelled in Aztalan brochure) earlier in the year. Feeling the connection of this great Mississippian civilization here is awesome. Park should be open at night, since most of the structures there correlate to the stars...

Jess G

Very nice easy hike with bits of history along the way...

James Flowers

Beautiful and interesting park highlighting the indigenous culture. No camping and not a huge park but a great short visit while in town.

Anmol Sharma

History lover thats a place for you

Ray Strekal

Interesting history

Christine Brettingen

Very interesting and kind of eerie. The mounds and stockades are huge! A nice walk, but bring your bug spray!

Brianna Walczak

Beautiful and underrated state park. Good grass trails with lots of history. Enjoyable and a good teaching place for kids.

Julia Mendez

Great place to take the family.

Nicole Paquette

Very fascinating.

Delaine Endl

Beautiful Wedding

Daryl Nordness

Awesome park

Stacey Lynn

As indigenous people, the one thing my husband & I would like to see at this spot would be a Spiritual Marker, telling people to be respectful around the burial mounds. Even though there are some overgrown stairs on the main large burial mound, people really shouldn't be walking all over it, or the smaller mounds. Walking on top of the lookout mound is one thing... but walking over a burial site is pretty disrespectful & while we were there, we saw LOTS of Non-Native people walking all over that mound. All that being said, this is a great site. Really well preserved & educational. I highly recommend it. But please be respectful of Native Ancestors.

Enno Siemsen

Peaceful. An impressive site!

Wayne Hoffman

Have to use your imagination for some of it

Soul Sailing Hippie

Great place to enjoy a walk and by the river side

Lisa Kucek

I love to visit and ponder this ancient cosmopolitan city, which brought together the Cahokian people from the south with the Woodland people of Wisconsin. We have a lot to learn and respect from this beautiful place.

Rei F

Beautiful place, a must see

Andrew Fox

Lots of informational signs around the park. You're kind of just on your own. Definitely a good place for s hike. Plenty of Pokemon Go stops and gyms.

R Althaus

Historical marker

Sarah Cassidy

One of the smaller state parks. Not as built up as some. But, that makes for a more peaceful hiking experience. Be sure to read the signs about the areas history.

DEVYN BARKER

This was a cool and fun experience

Becky Sturdy

Beautiful area with information plaques throughout your walk around the park.

Robin Dorn

Great varied trails: for pups and non-pup owners, grassy or paved, through trees or clearings, Crawfish river or middle of grassy meadow. Bring poop bags and please keep it clean! Lots of history here!! Wish there was area for pups to run free a bit though. I understand why not though. ;)

Jesurun Ritter

Beautiful place to visit

Sky LaCombe

It was a really nice place to walk around and learn about. Saw a couple of cranes while being there, as well as plenty of fish splashing in the water! Do recommend going there with family just to do something.

Benjamin Phelps

Medieval Wisconsin=Aztec Pyramids? I'm glad I did a little research about the site's history before I went. It prepared me to realized what I was looking at. It was facinating to be able to walk around a dozen conical Native American mounds and then go into an ancient city with partially reconstruced stockade. You don't have to go to Egpyt to see pyramids, you can do that in Wisconsin! There are two mostly restored two-tier ziggurats you can walk up on on stairs and another minor pyramid which still gives a good view. Located along the Crawfish River, you'll be able to see and hear a lot of the local wildlife at Aztalan.

Greg Carlson

Great hike

ashley azriel

Love this place

Kellan Reierson

Cool walking path with a lot of neat historical information. Not sure if the clothing depicted on the plaques is historically accurate with the Wisconsin winters.

Cathy Dambrosio

Very beautiful place nice hiking trails and good company

Bradley Armstrong

Very interesting place,plus updating walk ways

Patricia Wassenaar

Really enjoyed this park. Got outside for the day and found things I didn't know about in WI.

John Cone

Hike along the river relaxing. Nice history.

Scott Barker

Great state park and a great historical site

Tovi Beoletto

The parking was confusing and the help was rude.

Nemo Nobdy

One of a kind. Wonder if people in the future will observe our comparatively super primitive culture, coming to the last of our places still standing the same way.

Antonio Chavez Ortiz

(Translated by Google) Excellent (Original) Exelente

Odysseas

Truly amazing.

Matthew Gates

Beautiful park. Great trails to hike. Lots of history. Nice areas to have picnics. Museum is not open on Mondays and Tuesdays.

Mark Ahrens

Cool bit of Wisconsin history

Timothy

Really lame idea for a park. First the white men, for whatever reason, tear down a huge Indian mound. Then they try to rebuild it exactly how it was using their earth moving machines. This would be like tearing down the Sistine Chapel only to replace it with a small wooden shack. And then there is a fence, like 20 feet long, which is supposed to show that there was a longer one that surrounded the place. Why not build one that would surround to really show what it looked like? And to top it all off, the place is mis-named because the white discoverer mistakingly thought it was the Aztec people from Mexico that lived there when it was a whole different tribe which is a slap in the face to them! So if you don't mind big and open boring spaces with not much to really see and a place that has been desecrated by white men, then this park is for you!

Santa Schultz

Beautiful park

chugglebuggle angelwithinme

Has always been my favorite State Park.

Amie Bier

I stumbled upon this place just driving around and was pleasantly surprised at how incredibly interesting it was. The museum down the street is also worth a visit.

Susan Ufferman

It a nice place to visit especially if you have dogs.

Darl Johnstonbaugh

Nice place to relax for traveling people. Small fee to drive into rest of park. History here as well.

Zvi Lerman

An interesting archeological site with many highly informative historical plaques and diagrams describing Native American life before 12th century. Several platform mounds. Nice riverside walks

Marilyn Gill

I remember going there in the mid-60s. I can only remember the mounds. They are still quite big, even though I am an adult. The cabins of pioneers living in the 19th century are very interesting. I learned about the Moravian church which was and still is popular in this area.

Andrew Parker

First time here and it's a quiet place to walk. Really enjoyed the history here as well.

TRAPPER 32

I was unaware i had to pay to go here. That took up a chunk of time since i had no cash on me.

Iam Ghost

Beautiful yet mysterious place.

Jill Heczko

We didn't get to explore as much as we wanted because my daughter got sick. What we did see was pretty cool. We stopped at the Visitor's Center, which is temporarily in a trailer. The volunteer was very enthusiastic an knowledgeable. The video was very good. It is fairly easy to get to the reconstructed village. I wish the signage was a little better, but it wasn't bad.

Krista Narlock

Such a beautiful and peaceful place to spend a warm day at! I could spend all day just sitting in the sun here!

g k

Amazing to think there was a time well before the current occupants that this was the site of a highly sophisticated, urbane culture based on environmental preservation, open borders, and religious tolerance.

Ben Cedarberg

Very cool UNESCO ancient historical site. Limited hiking and walking around the historical Village site and some picnic tables and grills. Excellent informational plaques for a self-guided tour through the site. There is a manual water pump and and clean pit toilets. Good parking lots. Definitely worth a stop and interesting for the whole family.

Michelle Kapke

Great drinks!! food great !!Good specials!! Outstanding service!!

Roy Warren

A hidden gem with a lot of history.

Larry Black

Really interesting!

Brenda Peryea

This is my favorite place to be. Very centering!

C Fuller

Amazing historical spot

Hector Ortiz

Beautiful archaeological site We've had a aztec ceremony there two years ago and the year after that Lovely place and great energy

Cade Gentry

The mounds make this park one of the most unique in the area. The trails are fantastic and the views are amazing!

Deanna Herald

It was interesting to see the restored stockade and mounds. I look forward to when the interpretive signs are reinstalled. My children enjoyed mucking and squelching around the river shore, and the shoeless route to the pump to wash off was not too long. We loved seeing the butterflies enjoy the prairie, eating fire cherries, and a short walk.

Matthew Roe

Good place for an easy hike with prairie, forest, and cool pyramid mounds.

Jackie LaVaque

Very interesting place, smaller than I had expected. You can see why the natives wanted a village here. This is worth a drive if you're near Madison.

Maxx Lackie

Loved it!!

j t

Nice spot rifht by the river

Jake Probst

Great park.

Joyce Gutilla

They JUST finished putting up amazing educational signage as we arrived. This beautiful spot has a wonderful spiritual feeling throughout it. We spent three hours enjoying the beauty and vibe.

Brady Harper

Awesome place to wander and explore

Eric Schmidt

I always love to go there to hear the wind blow and watch the grasses sway back and forward. This place is without a doubt on of my favorite places in the world, and I must recommend that you just go there and enjoy the peace.

Tyler Robbins

Nice park for a very short visit. Really not worth the drive unless you have other plans in the area. Interesting site and the placards tell you about who lived there. The mosquitoes were terrible, which made for a brisk walk. It's one of those places we had been meaning to check out, and now we have. It exists.

Tracy Finch

Great history, but I wish the building was opened. Plaques were helpful to understand the history of the mound builders!

Spiritous

If you’re interested in learning about the mounds people and their culture you’ll love this place. It has an interactive display as well. There’s walking trails. Be aware that dogs are only allowed on part of the trail.

Dorothy Kosowski

Very nicely maintained state park. Will definitely return

Joseph Coelho

Historically and archeologically important site. Beautiful location along the Crawfish river. The log walls are an interesting sight. Doing some background reading about the site before visiting helps. There is a plan to put up an Interpretive Center on site.

Glorkar Floki

Neat park. A lot of educational info on the signs located throughout. I wouldn't call this a destination park, but it made for a nice break while passing through the area. Glad I was finally able to make it out here.

J S

Seriously why is this not taught in school?

Ray Miller

Smaller park.

James Zaworski

Aztlan is the Northernmost Mississippian Mound Site. The state park is free accessible and educational. It is an ancient Native American site from the Mississippian Culture, and is a significant site as well.

Monte Bennett

Great site minimal information and poorly organized

Diane Polinsky

Absolutely beautiful awesome place to relax a lot to learn about this park.

John Adamowski

Historical and lots of reading

Donna Billman

Loved it

Bill Taft

One of the most amazing things in southern Wisconsin. It's a grassy field at first blush, but the signage does a lovely job helping you imagine the city that was there

Vicki Printz

Enjoyed reading all the information on the native Indians. Really peaceful place.

Megan Storley

Awesome

Heather Wehrmann

Site needs a better visitor center. Was closed mid-day on a Saturday. Area is good to see though and historic.

Matthew Balch

Was really muddy, due to the season and high water. It would be cool to see some of the relics they have found.

Kathy Huebner

Great park for families and just walking