The CCC Tulelake camp was next to the Tule Lake War Relocation Center, which was built in 1942 for the internment of Japanese Americans evicted from their homes on the West Coast.
Since 1994, following the United States government formal apology for injustices in 1988 and payment in 1988 and 1992 of reparations to survivors of all the camps, the Tule Lake Committee has sponsored the annual Tule Lake Pilgrimage.