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

    Tule Lake Unit

News

Park News

December 10, 2012 - Winter Tours at Tule Lake

September 6, 2012 - Significant Pieces of History Donated

July 23, 2012 - The Bi-Annual Pilgrimage Held at Tule Lake Site

 
 
2008
Mt. Shasta News article about New Monument Established (December 11, 2008) (pdf)>

Herald and News article Great Nations Do Not Fear the Past (December 9, 2008) (pdf)>

Los Angeles Times article Tri State WWII National Monument Declared (December 7, 2008) (pdf)>

Herald and News article New Monument Expected to Benefit Tule Lake (December 7, 2008) (pdf)>

Herald & News article Hawaii & Alaska also Part of New park (December 6, 2008) (pdf)>

Herald & News article New Sites to become Park (December 6, 2008) (pdf)>

Herald & News article about Benefits of New Park (October 24, 2008) (pdf)>
 
Smithsonian Exhibit of Japanese American Internment Art
March 5, 2010 - January 30, 2011

The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1956 will be on exhibit at the Smithsonian, Washington, DC, Special Exhibition Galleries, 1st floor, Renwick Gallery. More Information>

Listen to an NPR story about the exhibit and the place of art in the internment story by Susan Stamberg. Story link>


New Park is established by Presidential Proclamation

View the proclamation that established the WW II Valor in the Pacific National Monument in December, 2008. Proclamation>

Did You Know?

Tule Lake

All of the flat land where the Camp was constructed was once under the waters of Tule Lake. You may see small white objects littering the ground. These are the shells of freshwater clams that lived in the lake bottom. The Klamath Reclamation Project drained the lake to create fertile farmland.