Interesting/unusual facts
Heart Mountain Relocation Center was the third largest "city" in Wyoming between 1942 and 1945.
Local residents recall that Heart Mountain Relocation Center was one of the few wartime communities in the state to have electricity.
Heart Mountain Relocation Center was a major part of the largest single draft resistance movement in United States history. A total of 85 men from Heart Mountain were jailed for draft law violations.

Land Ownership
Privately owned except for 73.9 acres controlled by the Bureau of Reclamation.

Special Designations
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, December 1985.

Preservation and Interpretive Efforts
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation owns a small parcel of land at the site where they plan to build a resource center, with planning assistance from the National Park Service (NPS). The foundation is also working to stabilize existing buildings, recreate half a block, develop a walking tour, collect archival materials, conduct oral history interviews, and pursue NPS-affiliated status for the site.
The Bureau of Reclamation is planning to remove and store the original Honor Roll sign, which is becoming damaged. The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation will create and display a replica of the original sign.
In 1963 the Veterans of Foreign Wars placed an historical monument along U.S. Highway Alt. 14. There is also a directional sign to the memorial park.
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation offers tours of Heart Mountain Relocation Center by request and reservation.

Public access to the site today
The Heart Mountain Memorial Park was initiated by area residents after World War II. The park includes plaques, a sidewalk and a graveled parking area. There is also a concrete slab moved from Block 25 and three standing hospital buildings. Most of the land included within the external boundaries of the relocation center is currently under cultivation. Three areas do have intact features: the administration and hospital complexes, on Reclamation land; the warehouse and root cellar areas on private land; and a portion of the high school, also on private land.

Local Resources
Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation: P.O. Box 547, Powell, WY 82435-0547
Tel: 307-754-2689, Fax: 307-754-0119. Email: pwolfe@wavecom.net

Selected Books
Inouye, Mamoru. The Heart Mountain Story: Photographs by Hansel Mieth and Otto Hagel of the World War II Internment of Japanese Americans. Published by Author, 1997.
Ishigo, Estele. Lone Heart Mountain. Los Angeles: Anderson, Ritchie, & Simon, 1972.
Mackey, Michael R. Remembering Heart Mountain: Essays on Japanese American Internment in Wyoming. Powell, WY: Western History Publications, 1998.
McKay Susan. The Courage Our Stories Tell: The Daily Lives and Maternal Child Health Care of Japanese American Women at Heart Mountain. Powell, WY: Western History Publications, 2002.
Muller, Eric L. Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001

Websites
www.heartmountain.org
Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation

www.chem.nwc.cc.wy.us/HMDP
Heart Mountain Digital Preservation Project

www.pbs.org/itvs/conscience/
Conscience and the Constitution