Frommers.com is a useful online website for those planning family vacations.  Frommers.com visitors are able to find candid, timely articles written by Frommers.com experts, and also can read excerpts from Frommer's Guidebooks, a travel guidebook series and one of the bestselling travel guides in America.

Recently, Frommer’s took an excerpt from the book 500 Places to Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up.  The top ten list features a diverse selection of locations ranging from the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona and the volcanoes of Hawaii, to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.  Featured among the list is Collinsville’s own Cahokia Mounds!  Frommers.com provides a brief glimpse at what Cahokia Mounds has to offer visitors, including the mysteries surrounding the Mississippian people and the astronomical observatory that archaeologists have dubbed Woodhenge.

Collinsville is listed along with other famous US locations that are described as destinations that the whole family can enjoy and remember for a lifetime!

To read the full listing for Cahokia Mounds and to see the other 'Places to Take the Kids Before They Grow Up,' visit http://travel.yahoo.com/p-interests-34489771

Collinsville is proud to have this world treasure right in its own backyard, and this recognition just goes to show that Collinsville is a great place to live, work and play!