Pilot Getaways Magazine - Patton's Desert Training Center Aerial Tour

An aerial tour of the WWII Desert Training Center, General Patton's complex of camps and bases used to train troops for combat in North Africa, is presented in our Winter 2001/2002 issue. This tour is expected to become an official sky trail, with supplemental material published by the California Bureau of Land Management (BLM), in early 2002. Please read the article on page 42 of the Winter issue for more details on flying the Sky Trail.

GPS waypoints make your navigation a lot easier. You can download the waypoints as a text file, or you can enter them manually from the table below.

(Note: Clicking on the above links will bring up the text document automatically. Windows users can right-mouse-click on the links and select "Save Target As" or"Save Link As" to download the file. Macintosh users can click and hold until another menu pops up, giving you the option to download.)

The Waypoints and Coordinates:
If you cannot upload coordinates into your GPS and need to do so manually, the waypoints are listed below:

ID	Name	LatD	LatM	N/S	LonD	LonM	E/W
2CYNG	Camp Young	33	40.4	N	115	47.0	W
L77	Chiriaco Summit	33	39.9	N	115	42.6	W
L64	Desert Center	33	44.9	N	115	19.4	W
2CCXM	Camp Coxcomb	33	54.7	N	115	16.4	W
2CGRN	Camp Granite	34	3.3	N	115	6.9	W
2CIMT	Camp Iron Mountain	34	6.0	N	115	9.5	W
2RICE	Rice Field	34	3.7	N	114	48.9	W
2CRCE	Camp Rice	34	4.6	N	114	45.7	W
2CDZD	Cadiz Dunes	34	21.5	N	115	23.5	W
2CDZS	Cadiz Siding	34	31.2	N	115	30.5	W
2AMBY	Amboy and Roy's	34	33.6	N	115	44.7	W
2AMBC	Amboy Crater	34	32.7	N	115	47.4	W
2CCLP	Camp Clipper	34	44.0	N	115	17.0	W
2ESX	Essex Field	34	46.3	N	115	13.2	W
2CESX	Camp Essex	34	47.9	N	115	13.5	W
2CGFS	Camp Goffs	34	55.1	N	115	4.2	W
2GOFS	Goffs Field	34	56.2	N	115	4.1	W
2IBIS	Ibis Field	34	58.4	N	114	50.4	W
2CIBS	Camp Ibis	34	58.2	N	114	49.4	W

Meanings of columns in the above table:

ID: Four or five-character waypoint ID. Note that all user waypoints start with "2"
so that they appear together on an alphabetical listing of waypoints.

Name: Name of the waypoint.

LatD: Whole degrees of latitude of the waypoint.

LatM: Minutes and tenths of minutes of latitude of the waypoint (e.g. "42.3").

N/S: Always "N" to signify north latitude (required by some GPS programs).

LonD: Whole degrees of longitude of the waypoint.

LonM: Minutes and tenths of minutes of longitude of the waypoint (e.g. "25.3").

E/W: Always "W" to signify west longitude (required by some GPS programs).