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The Country’s Newest National Park Is a Former Japanese Incarceration Site
23.02.2024 - 01:39 / cntraveler.com / Joe Biden / National Park
A four-hour drive from Denver, the rural town of Granada, Colorado, is home to just 450 people—and, at the end of a bumpy dirt road, the now-empty barracks and haunting buildings of “Camp Amache.” Also known as the Granada Relocation Center, Amache was once an internment camp for nearly 10,000 Japanese Americans who were forcibly removed from their homes between 1942 and 1945. Now, after decades of preservation efforts by local volunteers, this site has officially become America's newest national park.
The Amache National Historic Site, as it will now be called, received its upgraded designation last week, a change that immortalizes its history while, most importantly, marking a major step in the country’s reckoning with the historic discrimination of Japanese Americans during World War II.
“As a nation, we must face the wrongs of our past in order to build a more just and equitable future,” US Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland said in a statement shared by the National Park Service, emphasizing that the move is part of the government’s duty to “tell a complete and honest story of our nation’s history.”
While President Joe Biden took the first step to designate Camp Amache as part of the national park system in March 2022, the land itself had to be formally acquired by the town of Granada, and then donated to the park service, to officially move it into the NPS. With that process officially complete, the NPS announcement came on February 15, just days ahead of the Day of Remembrance for the Japanese American incarceration during World War II on February 19. Along with it came the debut of the Amache national park web page with information on the site's history, and how to plan a visit.
The historic site includes a monument, and most significantly, a historic cemetery honoring 121 internees who died while being held at Amache. In addition to the reconstructed guard tower and barrack, there's also a restored water tank and recreation hall. Visitors can participate in community events and panels, take a self-guided driving and audio tour to 11 points of interest, or book interpretive tours led by student volunteers. Those with a personal or familial connection to Amache can search an online barracks directory by name or unit number.
Though the site had been part of the National Register of Historic Places since 1994 and was made a National Historic Landmark in 2006, the site's true stewardship over the years has been largely homegrown, thanks to the efforts of John Hopper, the dean of students and longtime high school history teacher at the town's only school. Hopper first got involved with the local historical site while incorporating it into assignments for his students, and later founded the
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