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Contact: Hanako Wakatsuki, 208-539-3416
Contact: Park Ranger
Fall Hours at Minidoka National Historic Site
JEROME, Ida. – After Labor Day (September 2, 2019), the Minidoka National Historic Site’s temporary Visitor Center at the Herrmann House will be switching into fall hours. The temporary Visitor Center will be open to the public, September through October 2019, for the fall season on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from—10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Guided tours will be available on Saturdays and Sundays at 11 a.m. (when weather and staffing permits) with no reservations required for groups sized less than 10 people. Please make sure to bring water, sunscreen, hat, and have good walking shoes when touring the site. The temporary visitor center is located at 296 S. 1400 E., Jerome, Idaho 83338 (the Herrmann House), which is a baby blue house near the historic fire station, and features a small interpretive exhibit and the park’s bookstore.
Visitors can walk the 1.6 mile trail and around historical buildings like the barrack and mess hall in Block 22 on a self-guided-tour from sunrise to sunset. There are trail exhibits allowing visitors to learn more about life at Minidoka and the history of why Americans were imprisoned by their own country during WWII. Please be aware of safety issues at the site in regards to the wildlife as there are bees, snakes, and other animals.
Minidoka National Historic Site is located at 296 S. 1400 E. in Jerome, Idaho— twenty miles northeast of Twin Falls, Idaho. Admission is free. For more information, please call (208) 825-4169, or visit the website at www.nps.gov/miin, or explore our Facebook page “Minidoka National Historic Site.”
The purpose of Minidoka National Historic Site is to provide opportunities for public education and interpretation of the exclusion and unjust incarceration of Nikkei—Japanese American citizens and legal residents of Japanese ancestry—in the United States during World War II. Minidoka National Historic Site protects and collaboratively manages resources related to the Minidoka War Relocation Center in Idaho and the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial in Washington State.
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Last updated: August 28, 2019