• Mt. Williamson and cemetery monument

    Manzanar

    National Historic Site California

Operating Hours & Seasons

Manzanar National Historic Site

The 814 acre site is open every day from dawn to dusk.

Interpretive Center

Due to budget and staffing constraints, Manzanar National Historic Site's Interpretive Center will remain on shorter "winter" hours (9:00 to 4:30) throughout 2013. In years past, the center remained open an extra hour a day from April 1 through October 31.

Open daily 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Closed December 25

Did You Know?

Manzanar cemetery. NPS Photo.

One hundred fifty Japanese Americans died while interned at Manzanar, but only six are still buried in the cemetery. Most of the 150 people were cremated, and others were removed from the cemetery after the war.