Manzanar National Historic Site
Historic Site · Independence, California
One of ten camps where the United States government incarcerated around 120,000 Japanese Americans during the Second World War, two thirds of them American citizens. Roughly 10,000 people were held here in the Owens Valley between 1942 and 1945, under the Sierra Nevada, and the site is now preserved as a memorial and a warning. Admission is free.
5001 Highway 395, Independence, California, 93526, United States
Site open daily dawn to dusk. Visitor center typically 9 AM - 4:30 PM. Free.
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