• Mt. Williamson and cemetery monument

    Manzanar

    National Historic Site California

Outdoor Activities

Driving Tour
A 3.2 mile self-guided driving tour takes you past the sentry posts, camp auditorium, ruins of the administrative complex, concrete foundations of many types, rock gardens, portions of the water system, and the camp cemetery. Stop in the Visitor Center for our brochure which contains the tour description.

 

Mountain Biking

Bike the main tour road or gravel roads north and south of the site.

 

Explore the Site

You are encouraged to explore the site on your own. Although cars and bicycles are restricted to the tour road, you are free to explore the entire site on foot. You can visit ten recent excavations of the Japanese American gardens and ponds as well as Merritt Park the camp's community garden, the chicken ranch, the orchards, or any of the other features of the site not on the main tour road.

Did You Know?

From the photo album of Yoshiko Hosoi.

188 couples were married at Manzanar. Some former internees say that without the camps, they never would have met their spouse. Hundreds of other couples married just before going to camp to avoid being separated.