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Patton's Desert Training Center Aerial Tour


GPS Waypoints

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.

Download GPS waypoints:

The route in Tab Delimited Text format and the Readme text file.

(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: Three- to five-character waypoint ID.

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).