Tule Lake National Monument
California
Tonight
🌗 46% moon
6.1 h fully dark
Crowds
low
Open today
Open
Tule Lake Visitor Center: closed Oct 4 – May 26
Entrance
Free entry
Tule Lake National Monument includes both Tule Lake Segregation Center, the largest and most controversial of the sites where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II, and Camp Tulelake, which was first a Civilian Conservation Corps camp, then an additional facility to detain Japanese Americans, and finally a prisoner of war camp.
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No entrance fee.
Hours & seasons
The visitor center is open Thursday - Sunday from 9:00am to 4:30pm, till September 7th. Please check the calendar for the most accurate information.
⚠ Tule Lake Visitor Center: closed Oct 4 – May 26
Generally open:
summerfallHours are reported by the park — verify before you go.
📞 (530) 664 4015
✉ TULE_Information@nps.govConditions
Quietest months (fewer crowds): Jan, Feb, Mar, Dec
Typical crowds: low
Weather now: ☀️ Clear, 83°F
☀️ 93°/49°
☀️ 93°/60°
☀️ 98°/61°
Typical monthly recreation visits · NPS avg 2023–2025 — orange months are the quietest by crowds.
Quietest months
Relative crowds by month — lighter is quieter; ringed months are the calmest by crowds.
Jan
0%
Feb
0%
Mar
0%
Apr
1%
May
32%
Jun
73%
Jul
100%
Aug
84%
Sep
34%
Oct
1%
Nov
1%
Dec
0%
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Visitor centers
Tule Lake Visitor Center
Accessibility
13 audio-described place(s)
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By the numbers
A visual read on Tule Lake National Monument — its character, trails, sky, and weather.
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3-day forecast
Daily high and low temperatures (°F).
People & stories
Figures tied to Tule Lake National Monument — each spans a cross-park journey.
Dr. Kazue Togasaki
— Women's History, Ggnra, Japanese AmericanHannah Tomiko Holmes
— Tule Lake, Tule Lake War Relocation Center, Tule Lake National MonumentJohn Lesesne DeWitt
— Tule, Relocation, SegregationMitsuye Endo
— Tule Lake, Tule Lake National Monument, Tule Lake War Relocation CenterTamio "Tommy" Kono
— Tule, Tule Lake, SegregationWayne Mortimer Collins
— Wayne M. Collins, Wayne, CollinsPassport stamps
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🎫 Tule Lake Visitor Center
🎫 Tule Lake Visitor Center
Places to see
Camp Tulelake
audio
Museum - Final Indoor Exhibit
audio
Museum - Lava Beds Exhibit
audio
Museum - Modoc Indian War Exhibit
audio
Museum - Potato Festival Exhibit
audio
Museum - Segregation Center Indoor Exhibit
audio
Museum - Segregation Center Outdoor Exhibit
audio
Museum - Tulelake Exhibit
audio
Museum - Wildlife Exhibit
audio
Museum - World War One Exhibit
audio
Museum - World War Two Exhibit
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This series will look beyond the historical facts relating to E.O. 9066 and explore the human side of the story. One incarcerate from each of the 10 camps with be highlighted in this year long series.
On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order No. 9066 empowering the U.S. Army to designate areas from which "any or all persons may be excluded." No person of Japanese ancestry living in the United States was ever convicted of any serious act of espionage or sabotage during the war.
Anti-Asian laws and policies in the late 1800s and early 1900s
Bill Nishimura was incarcerated at Poston and Tule Lake.
Across the US, changes in water availability are altering which plants grow where. These changes are evident at a broad scale. But not all areas experience the same climate in the same way, even within the boundaries of a single national park. A new dataset gives park managers a valuable tool for understanding why vegetation has changed and how it might change in the future under different climate-change scenarios.
The annual December 2022 gathering of Klamath Conversations, a meeting of the parks within the National Park Service’s Klamath Network, hosted 19 presenters across a wide variety of topics. Not surprisingly, the topic of wildland fire dominated the talks, as network parks have burned extensively over the past few years.
This is the exact wording of EO 9066.
Gloria Hisako Tamura Morita was incarcerated at Tule Lake.
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