Theodore Roosevelt Presidential LibraryPublic Lands Directory

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Information No Visitor Center

Currently, there is no visitor center for Amache National Historic Site. There is a museum in the town of Granada that is operated by Amache Preservation Society. Learn more at amache.org

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Information Limited Cell Phone Coverage

Cell phone voice and data coverage is very limited in the park and surrounding area.

Overview

Amache, also known as the Granada Relocation Center, near Granada, Colorado was one of ten incarceration sites established by the War Relocation Authority during World War II to unjustly incarcerate Japanese Americans. Over 10,000 people, most American citizens, were incarcerated at Amache from 1942 to 1945.

From the National Park Service

History

The designation history for this site (every law, proclamation and order, and the administration behind each) is being researched and checked by the Library’s historians.

What to see and do

Activities

  • Guided Tours
  • Self-Guided Tours - Auto
  • Junior Ranger Program

Browse hiking, biking and paddling routes on AllTrails

Plan your visit

Hours

Amache National Historic Site: The site is currently open to the public with limited hours and services. The site currently consists of a cemetery, a monument, building foundations, and landscaping. Interpretive panels and a downloadable self-guided auto tour are available on amache.org to assist with navigation of the site. There is no visitor center at the site.

Getting there

Amache National Historic Site is in southeastern Colorado about 1.5 miles west of the town of Granada, 17.5 miles east of Lamar, and half an hour drive from the Kansas border. The site is located off Highway 385/50 along the Santa Fe Trail.

Weather

The site is located in Colorado on the High Plains, an arid, windy, and sunny environment. Temperatures and conditions can be extreme in this region, with hot, arid summers that include occasional thunderstorms and tornadoes, as well as cold and snowy winters.

Phone: 719-936-7600

Whose lands these are

These lands are the ancestral and present-day homelands of Native nations. A section on whose lands these are is being prepared with tribal review. In the meantime, Native Land Digital offers a starting point.

Photos

black and white image of a Japanese styled garden with a small koi pond.
Gardens at Amache · Courtesy of Sonoma State.
A row of concrete foundations in a dry grassy field with a group of trees in the background.
Amache Barracks · © Sandra Sugawara: Cannot be reproduced without permission of Sandra Sugawara,
A dead tree rises from a grassy field and is silhouetted against a pink cloud at sunset.
Amache Sunset · © Sandra Sugawara: Cannot be reproduced without permission of Sandra Sugawara

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