An effort to make the Effigy Mounds Preserve in Whitewater more visitor friendly is getting some help from the city and local volunteers, and it could get help from the state, as well.
About 20 people attended a tour of the Effigy Mounds Preserve in Whitewater on Nov. 12 to discuss possible plans for maintaining the preserve.
WHITEWATER -- Caution tape, overgrown weeds, tall grass that reaches to the waist and benches you can’t sit on.
Caution tape and red flags mark the borders for the mounds at Effigy Mounds Preserve near Whitewater to keep people from walking on them.
At the entryway of the preserve, visitors see a map of all 13 mounds and how to travel through the preserve.
Visitors at Effigy Mounds Preserve in Whitewater aren’t able to take a seat due to overgrowth of grass and weeds.
