Minidoka National Historic Site

Closed Visitor Center!

Visitor Center was under renovation, so it was closed! However there was a box containing brochures and passport stamps! Sites up the road we’re interesting.

An intense education not to be missed

This was an intensely emotional learning experience. I knew if the Japanese American concentration camps established after Pearl Harbor. But to experience one is powerful and should make everyone awar...

Ghosts

In the not-so-distant past over 100,000 American citizens were locked up for the color of the skin and shape of their eyes. We must not forget. Spending a few hours here may help us all not repeats th...

Interesting subject

Unfortunately when we visited the visitors center was closed until next year. There was a place for park stamps in a after hours box. There were plenty of informational signs along some nice flat gr...

A Sad Reminder of US History

We were lucky to visit Minidoka on a Friday and got to go in the Visitor Center--it is exceptionally well done. The displays and exhibits are informative and paint a very real picture of what life was...