The Tule Lake Committee announces the dates of the 2026 Tule Lake Pilgrimage, “Resistance and Solidarity,” will be the weekend of July 3-6, 2026.
Pilgrimage registration opens at 9 AM PST, Thursday, February 19, 2026 and will be completed entirely ONLINE at www.tulelake.org. The process will include filling out requested registration information online and making payment online via Paypal or Venmo. The all-inclusive registration fee for the 4-day event is $700 p/p. For those on a limited or fixed income, we offer grants of $400 to defray the expense.
“In today’s political climate, it is more important than ever to remember Tule Lake’s history of the government demonizing people of color, taking birthright citizenship and deporting them,” says pilgrimage chair, Hiroshi Shimizu. “Now is the time to show solidarity and support others who are going through the same abuses as our families did during WWII.”
As the Segregation Center, Tule Lake is unique among the 10 WRA concentration camps as the only site converted to a maximum-security prison where dissident Japanese Americans were demonized and the Department of Justice stripped them of birthright citizenship so they could be deported as “enemy aliens.”
2026 Pilgrimage Registration
This year’s pilgrimage registration will switch from analog paper forms and paper checks to an online process for registration and payment.
Registration materials and payment can be accessed at www.tulelake.org beginning 9 AM PST, on Thursday, February 19. Registration is $700 per person. The registration fee is all-inclusive and covers charter bus transportation, lodging, meals and all activities during the four-day pilgrimage. For those who seek financial assistance, we offer reimbursement grants that will defray up to $400 of the registration fee.
Registration is expected to fill quickly. We encourage you to be prompt in completing the registration process, especially survivors and descendants of Tule Lake and those who share our passion to preserve Tule Lake’s social justice history.
If you are unfamiliar with electronic registration forms or making online payments using Paypal or Venmo, please consult a family member or friend who can assist you in completing the registration process.
Pilgrimage Details
Pilgrimage participants travel together in deluxe, chartered buses that depart from San Francisco, Berkeley, San Jose, Union City, Sacramento, the Sacramento Airport, Seattle and Portland.
Accommodations will be at the Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls in a new air-conditioned building equipped with elevators, double-occupancy dorm rooms and shared bathroom facilities. For a single-occupancy room, the fee is an extra $50. Rooms in the air-conditioned Village Apartment suites, that has no elevators, are an extra $100 p/p.
Activities over the 4-day pilgrimage include a memorial service at the site of the Tule Lake concentration camp and tours led by docents who are descendants of family members imprisoned at Tule Lake. Plenary sessions, workshops and “healing circles” provide an occasion to learn, share experiences and help heal the multi-generational wounds of the wartime incarceration. The final night’s closing cultural program is held at the Ross Ragland Theater in downtown Klamath Falls.
To protect one another, we require COVID testing 24-hours before the buses depart for Tule Lake.
A detailed FAQ will be available soon with the pilgrimage registration materials posted at www.tulelake.org.
A PDF version of this press release is available here.