Pere Marquette State Park Visitors Center
13112 Visitor Center Lane, Grafton, Illinois
618-786-3323 ext 1
An aquarium featuring fish native to the Illinois River.
Pere Marquette's Visitor Center, opened in October of 1997, welcomes you with a three-dimensional map of the park, a gift shop and information center, and a wealth of other displays and exhibits concerning the Illinois River, wildlife habitat, local history and geology. Designed to compliment the CCC era lodge the Visitor Center won the State of Illinois Thomas H. Madigan Award for Aesthetic Integration in 1998.
The Park contains many natural and historical attractions. Click on any one of the following topics to explore more of what the Park has to offer:
Illinois Owls
Native American Pottery
Jacques Marquette Biography
The Marquette Monument
"Four Rivers" Fabric Art
Bird Watching
