Hot take: The Cahokia Mounds restoration work is going too far
I visited Cahokia Mounds last October and honestly, I think they're overdoing it with the modern landscaping. They put in these clean gravel paths and metal signs everywhere that feel more like a suburban park than an ancient city. Monks Mound had this fresh sod laid down that looked like a golf course, not a 1,000 year old structure. I get that they want to make it accessible, but I feel like we're losing the raw sense of history there. My grandpa visited in 1985 and said it was way more rugged and you could actually imagine people living there. Am I the only one who thinks less intervention would be better for sites like this?