Event Details
Friday, Feb 22, 2013
Moon Over The Mounds
Time: 8:00 pm til 10:00 pm
Location: 3400 N Museum Pointe Crystal River, FL 34428
Description: Moon Over the Mounds
Archaeologists and Park Staff present a moon-lit tour and interpretation of the famous Crystal River Archaeological Site
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Friends of Crystal River State Parks is hosting Moon Over the Mounds. This event is scheduled once a month on Friday evening(s) of a full moon.
The tour is held from 8 to 10 pm at the Crystal River Archaeological State Park in Citrus County. (Crystal River Archaeological Site is a world-famous pre-Columbian mound complex extending along the north shore of the Crystal River. The site is one of the most imposing prehistoric ceremonial centers on Florida’s west coast.
The Moon Over the Mounds tour this season will begin at the Park Museum at 8:00 PM. Interpretive guides tell the story of the famous Crystal River Site by torchlight as guests tour though the moon-lit mound complex. Travel back with us to AD 600 when the Crystal River site was the most important ceremonial site in the region!
The park is located at 3400 North Museum Pointe, Crystal River just north of the Crystal River Mall. Drive North on U.S. 19 and turn left onto State Park Street.
FPAN is participating in this event.
Moon over the Mounds at the Crystal River Archaeological State Park
Time: 8:00 pm til 9:30 pm
Location: Crystal River Archaeological State Park, 3400 N. Museum Point Crystal River, FL 34428
Description: The Friends of the Crystal River State Parks, Inc., in partnership with the Florida Park Service, Florida Public Archaeology Network and Gulf Archaeology Research Institute will kick off the fall season with the popular Moon over the Mounds guided evening walking tour.
Travel back in time to experience the park under the full moon and catch a glimpse of what life was like living on the Crystal River from 1000 BC to AD 1000. The event is free but donations are welcome. This fund-raising event is sponsored by the Friends of Crystal River State Parks. Recommended donations of $5.00 per person will be applied to sustaining future interpretive programming in the park.
The museum building opens at 7:30 p.m. tours will begin at 8 p.m. and end at approximately 9:30 p.m.
Reservations are not required but appreciated for larger groups.
For additional information, please call (352) 795-3817. Contact: marla.l.chancey@floridadep.org
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FPAN is posting this event as a courtesy, we will neither be hosting nor attending this event.
