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Did you know? Shooting stars are not actual stars! What we call a shooting star is a streak of light from the burning dust of meteors entering Earth’s atmosphere at high speeds and vaporizing.

What is the Waterpocket Fold? The tilted cliffs along the Scenic Drive are part of this massive wrinkle in the Earth’s crust.

Capitol Reef’s sedimentary rock layers tell us stories from Earth’s ancient past.

You can visit four public sites at Hopewell Culture National Historical Park! Let us help you plan your time for the best experience.

Mound City Group is the smallest of the Hopewell sites in Ross County, but it very well may contain the largest stories of this remarkable culture. The site is home to the park's only visitor center. Grounds are open every day from dawn to dusk while the visitor center building maintains regular hours of operation.

The Confederate surprise attack in the pre-dawn fog of October 19, 1864 struck here against the 8th Corps first, then drove the rest of the Federal troops from their camps around Belle Grove Plantation.

Lucy Buck (left) and her sister, Nellie (right), witnessed the Battle of Front Royal. Lucy’s wartime diary was later published as Sad Earth, Sweet Heaven.

An account of the actions of the U.S. Colored Troops at the start of the Petersburg Campaign.

Battery Ricketts was constructed to protect the Maryland or eastern end of the two bridges crossing the Anacostia (at the Navy Yard and two and a half miles upstream at Benning's Bridge) and to occupy the heights above the Navy Yard and Washington Arsenal.

Located at the intersection of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire Avenues in Northwest Washington, DC, Dupont Circle has served as the anchor of a neighborhood of diplomats, government officials, war commemorations, and the LGB community for over 200 years.

Capulin Volcano National Monument provides access to nature’s most awe-inspiring work. Come view a dramatic landscape—a unique place of mountains, plains, and sky—born of fire and forces continually reshaping the earth’s surface.

About 900 years ago, mound building began along Bear Creek, this site already had been used by semi-sedentary groups for thousands of years. Typical of a Mississippian period village, a ceremonial building sat on Bear Creek’s flat top, providing a focus for spiritual life.