• View of the Tule Lake Segregation Center from guard tower on top of Castle Rock

    Tule Lake Unit

    CA

Welcome to the Tule Lake Unit of WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument

The Tule Lake Unit became a National Monument along with 8 other units in Hawaii and Alaska by Presidential proclamation in December 2008. Tule Lake Unit includes a Civil Conservation Corp camp, a Prisoner of War camp and sites where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during WWII.

Features

  • Moving through Tule Lake

    Tule Lake Segregation Center

    Converted to a high-security Segregation Center in 1943, Tule Lake became the largest of the 10 War Relocation Authority (WRA) camps.

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  • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) members build rock walls around the Fish and Wilife Visitor Center.

    Camp Tulelake

    Camp Tulelake, a former Civilian Conservation Corps camp, later housing Japanese Americans in 1943, and German Prisoners of War from 1944-1946.

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    Connecting with the park

    You can contact us by mail, phone, e-mail or by visiting our new Facebook page www.facebook.com/TuleLakeNPS

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  • One of the guard towers that surrounded the camps.

    New Park will be Developed Over Next Few Years

    You can help with development of the Tule Lake Unit by checking back often to learn about the planning and by providing public feedback.

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Did You Know?

snow on Castle Rock, Newell, CA

Japanese American families, prior to segregation at Tule Lake,  went  snow sledding on Castle Rock.