Effigy Mounds begins week long celebration of National Parks Week

National Park Week, the annual week-long celebration and recognition of America's National Parks, begins Saturday.  Northeast Iowa's national park, Effigy Mounds, will observe the week by having free admission Saturday and Sunday and a week long schedule of national park movies.

Saturday, April 19              Secret Yosemite
Sunday, April 20                Canyonland
Monday, April 21                Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
Tuesday, April 22               (Earth Day) Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Wednesday, April 23          Grand Portage National Monument
Thursday, April 24              Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
Friday, April 25                    Homestead National Monument of America
Saturday, April 26              Yellowstone America's Sacred Wilderness
Sunday, April 27                 Shenandoah Valley National Park

Effigy Mounds National Monument is located three miles north of Marquette and 22 miles south of Waukon on Highway 76.  For more information, call (563) 873-3491 ext. 202 or visit the park's website at www.nps.gov/efmo.