Gordon Hirabayashi Th

By the 1930s, more people wanted to visit the mountain, but the Control Road was too long of a trip from Tucson. Frank Hitchcock, then publisher of the Tucson Citizen, promoted the idea of a route up the south side of the mountain. He coordinated prison labor and housed them at Prison Camp, which was built in 1937. By 1939, the highway was paved to Molino Basin. During WWII, due to Executive Order 9066, Gordon Hirabayashi and other Japanese-Americans were interned at the site, now named in his honor.